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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Security (was: Re: Two commands: icat and ils)
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:27:14 +0100 (MET)
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, dworkin@rover.village.org
In-Reply-To: <199601221358.GAA29324@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jan 22, 96 06:57:49 am
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> : Why ? Security must be enforced with proper protections, not by
> : simply trying to hide information which *is* available.
> 
> The standard reason that is given is that it bypasses all file system
> checks...  However, you need to be root to run it, so maybe that isn't
> such a horrible thing.

exactly. Also, you already have more powerful tools like "cat" and
"rm" to peek at people's data or destroy information.

	Luigi