Once that environment is established, pulling down tools and using them is a piece of cake. So for all of your forgotten about Mac-using hackers out there, my first series of how-tos is for you, and will help you overcome the first hurdle-setting up a hacking environment. That's a lot of bang for your buck out of one machine! If that weren't enough, macOS is easy to use and maintain. It also means that an Apple machine can run Linux and Windows with ease. This means that most hacking tools run on the Mac operating system. In those days, Windows and Linux ruled the scene.īut things have changed-macOS is a serious contender in the hacking scene, and Macs are now up to a 7.4 and 13% market share worldwide and in the US, respectively.Īpple machines run a POSIX compliant UNIX variant, and the hardware is essentially the same as what you would find in a high-end PC.

Tools were sparse, the hardware was specific to Apple, and developers often didn't bother porting to Mac because of the small market share or the perception that they weren't for serious computing. In the days before macOS (previously called OS X), hacking on an Apple machine was laughable. A properly set up Apple machine can do quite a bit of heavy lifting. There are a few outliers, but it's mainly Linux, which leads to the idea that Linux is the only OS that's viable for hacking. When it comes to hacking guides, most are written from the perspective of a Linux user.

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