> How about forking off a server process that lets me execute arbitrary > commands as you? > > How about placing trojan processes in your person bin directory? > > How about subtly corrupting all of the writable data in your filesystem? > > How about setting up a spam bot on your machine? Using your machine as > part of a distributed denial-of-service attack against some other > networked machines? > > How about replacing your compiler with one that introduces errors > nondeterministically? Changing your acme to occasionally not save your > data? > > If you sit down and think of it for a little bit you'll notice this is > just the tip of the iceburg. There are lots of irritating things that can > happen even without setuid or a super user.
clearly, you're not getting an account on my machine. - erik
