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Re:Dotfile madness by OJFord on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:23AM (#19069434)
If that can be done, doesn't it defeat the purpose here? Anything can create a file, and then change this tag to 'system' or whatever.
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Re:Dotfile madness by loeg on Sunday February 03, 2019 @05:23PM (#19072622)
Mac OS 8 dates to the 90s. Nowadays these things are probably public key signed, but back then they probably were not.
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Re:Dotfile madness by mistercow on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:29PM (#19073776)
Back then, public key signing of any strength was considered a munition.
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Re:Dotfile madness by mistercow on Sunday February 03, 2019 @05:16PM (#19072592)
But why would they?
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