Hi Finlay, On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Finlay Dobbie <[email protected]> wrote:
> -- > Indeed, many types of data, such as hashes, unencrypted versions of > sensitive data, and authentication tokens, should generally not be > written to disk due to the potential for abuse. This raises an > interesting problem. There is no good way to deal with this in user > space (unless a program is running as root). > -- I'm not sure I understand why there's a need to stop these details from going to disk. Surely the only way a malicious program could read any of this data is if it had root access and if it has root access, there are loads of different ways it could get access to the data (for example: reading it directly from memory). What am I missing? Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
