[nycbug-talk] Automatically Restart Your Mac If It Freezes

[Matthew Story]

Finally giving some attention to my new PowerBook ... I mean MacBook Pro
and nestled under System Preferences -> Energy Saver, I found this gem of
an option:

restart automatically if the computer freezes

( Screenshot available in this article praising the feature:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/19/automatically-restart-your-mac-if-it-freezes-in-os-x-lion/)

Upon further investigation, this feature has already come in handy, as Lion
apparently ha[sd] a tendency to freeze on start and/or resume:

http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/28/users-report-video-related-freezes-in-lion/

Not sure how I feel about this feature ... it seems that it would now be
easy to achieve priv escalation via restart given a machine running with
auto-restart + resume ... drop payload -> cause freeze -> (auto-restart ->
resume) -> everything is fine.

Thoughts?

-- 
regards,
matt
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