Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:24:20 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: TALPA - a threat model? well sorta. |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:17:14 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > I would suggest again to clarify this important point first. It has > significant impact on the whole design.
agreed.
> > Personally I would think not protecting against root would be quite > limiting (e.g. it would mean that e.g. if some worm trojans rpms > people download then they wouldn't be caught because rpms are > installed as root),
on argument could be that root apps like that could/should do explicit scanning regardless. (if we have an explicit interface to scan a file that's not too hard)
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