Re: Disturbing news..

From: Romano Giannetti (romano@dea.icai.upco.es)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 11:14:24 EST


On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:57:47AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Romano Giannetti wrote:
>
> > Now the binary can do much less harm than before, or am I missing something?
> > It have no access to real user data, but can use the system library and
> > services without changing anything in the system.
>
> You mean, like mailbombing the living hell out of somebody? Or playing
> interesting games with sending signals all over the place...

Yes, I was sure there were doors left, but --- it has no access to the
bookmark list of user, and can kill just user processes... that was what I
meant with "less harm" (never say never, I know...).

           Romano

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