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Subject: [ale] Linux Distributions
From: kafka at antichri.st (George Carless)
Date: Tue May 17 16:03:51 2005
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> 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
Words are just dust in deserts of sound

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  - From: groups at ChangingLINKS.com (ChangingLINKS.com)
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  - From: Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net (Robert L. Harris)
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  - From: jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)
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  - From: kafka at antichri.st (George Carless)
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