[Tech] Proposed solution to FCP security issues

toad toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
Thu Nov 2 22:44:05 UTC 2006


On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:38:11AM +1300, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> >
> >I didn't say it protects you against a local root!
> 
> It also doesn't protect you if you run a malicious client as the same
> user as a legit one, it's fairly trivial for local app to search a FS
> for your legit client's store.

So what? If you run a malicious local app with any privelidges to do
anything dangerous (like read your files), you're screwed.
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