Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alan Curry" <> | Subject | Re: 3dfx - a security hazard? | Date | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:47:12 -0500 (EST) |
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Tigran Aivazian writes the following: >Sorry, still not convinced. :) > >Saying to a user who has just written his new flight simulator which >requires access to /dev/mem "oh no - access to this device is definitely >restricted!" is exactly the same as saying to another user whose new game >needs access to /dev/3dfx "oh no - this device is a security hole, can't >give you access to that!".
If the flight simulator is using svgalib, the situation is very similar indeed. And I think most of us will agree in hindsight that svgalib was a security hazard in real life, and that the mistake should not be repeated.
-- Alan Curry
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