[ale] Linux Distributions

[George Carless]

> If you run your browser as user bob, how do you really know that
> java/javascript/flash/realplayer/etc. didn't just do a malicious thing
> that did in fact gain root privileges via any local root exploit (like
> the ones just announced in kernel 2.6.11)?

Well, you don't.  But nobody's claiming that running non-root fixes *every* issue...

--George
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George Carless ... kafka at antichri.st
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