Re: 2.4.22-pre7: are security issues solved?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 15:23:02 EST


On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 21:16, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Or maybe it is possible to update this information with a longer period.
> Let's say for example 5 seconds. So it is almost impossible to determine
> the length of a password.

In some cases that is still useful information. People brought up the
IRQ data and to be honest that also is something I'd prefer wasn't non
root viewable.

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