Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:14:24 +0200 | From | Romano Giannetti <> | Subject | Re: Disturbing news.. |
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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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