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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by copperx on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:27PM (#15802993)
This reminds me of jwz's XScreenSaver rant.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:46PM (#15803144)
FYI...that's currently forwarding to a very NSFW image.
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by djsumdog on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:16PM (#15803328)
Huh. It's only doing that if you go there from HackerNews. He must have a rule that checks the http-referrer O_o
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by copperx on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:01PM (#15804466)
Whoa. Not my intention. But I can't edit my original comment.
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by spiznnx on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:16PM (#15803329)
It only forwards if the referrer is HN.
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by janekm on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:21PM (#15803648)
A kiwi is nsfw?
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by ybloviator on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:17PM (#15803334)
Yes it is. But being a brilliant brogrammer, I figured out how to view the link.
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by qu4z-2 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:47PM (#15803763)
It's not hard to make it work, but for those of us at work it's nice to have a warning that we shouldn't just blindly click it.

That said, I wouldn't visit jwz's blog at work anyway.

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