On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
She's saying that she's writing systems programs, which (when run) can cause a great deal of damage if they contain errors or malicious code.Heather Madrone wrote:This makes no sense? Compiling as a non-root user can cause more damage than a root enabled user?Most of my career was spent as a C/C++ systems programmer. The damage I can do with a command line as root is nothing compared to the damage I can do with a C compiler.
-Ken
