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

[Jonathan Rickman]

On 5/19/05, Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> In your view, a user can become infected with malware that turns their
> box into a spam relay, a drone in a distributed botnet, a repository for
> illegal porn or software, but as long as the user's home directory is
> untouched none of that matters.  Users can remain blissfully unaware of
> how their computers are used for nefarious purposes, because their data
> is left alone.

Actually, his views on that are flawed because the user directories
are not protected from root anyway. So in essence what he is saying is
that since he can't protect his user data...screw it.

--
Jonathan