On Tuesday 26 August 2008 03:34, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Smaller-scale attacks are still possible, > > plus, people are all to eager to copy pieces of code around so > > proliferation of bad examples like these is very undesirable. > > I accept your second point. Could you expand on the first -- what do > you mean by "smaller-scale attack"?
You can still trash the files owned by the user running the program, so it probably won't bring the system down but it does allow for vandalism. As said, that's considerably smaller scale but undesirable, still. cheers, Thijs
pgp5CaJ7GyNwb.pgp
Description: PGP signature
