> One of the worst case scenarios would be for someone to ship a hacked
> mscorlib then somehow run sn.exe on the deployment machine to turn off
> verification checking on mscorlib. There are 3 problems the bad guy
has to
> overcome:
>
> 1. getting the fake mscorlib onto the machine
> 2. getting sn.exe onto the machine (it only ships with the sdk and not
the
> redist)
> 3. running the application (sn.exe) under an admin account


#2 isn't really a problem - it's not like SN -Vr does much beyond
setting a registry key.  So all hacker X has to do is get that reg key
set.  Now to do this he still needs admin access...

Jason

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