Re: Disturbing news..

[Romano Giannetti]

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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Romano Giannetti             -  Univ. Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain)
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