On 8/18/06, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
        No. Anything executing in my son's session is executing at his
privilege level, and thus has no access to other home folders or
system locations. The only way something like that can happen is if
there is a security flaw in the system that allows a rogue program to
get root privileges, and to date no such vulnerability has been found
in any BSD-based system (of which OS X is one).

Never heard of the internet worm, aka the Morris worm?
However, that was quite some time ago (1988!)

--
Paul


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