[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed May 18 23:38:16 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:29 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't completely ignore it, I just don't think it is relevant.  If a
> > virus can "attack" anything in /home/user that is already a much worse
> > situation.  If something "owns" /bin/ls I've already got worse problems.
> > The fact that the virus could make it to /home/user (where user UID=0 or
> > UID=10001) is the problem to solve, not saving the rest of the (already)
> > sinking ship at that point.
> > 
> 
> I'm glad that you're not in any important position of power.  You seem
> to care naught about masses, merely only yourself.

This just shows how off-base you are.  You think that one thing applies
to all, and that if I was in power everybody would be forced to do what
I was doing.  Where do kids like you get educated these days?

-Jim P.






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