Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:21:15 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Liam Slusser <liam@tiora.net>, Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu>, "Harry M. Leitzell" <Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BPF on in 3.3-RC GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990917201820.046f09e0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199909172259.PAA55902@apollo.backplane.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990917160519.047cc890@localhost> <Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:54:24 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990916185341.00aaf100@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990916185341.00aaf100@localhost> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990916150427.5757E-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> <199909172208.QAA05554@harmony.village.org>
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At 03:59 PM 9/17/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Making a system reasonably secure does not equate to protecting root from > itself. If someone has root, you've lost. Period. It doesn't matter > whether they can modify the system or not, you've still lost. See my article at http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/98/dec/bwm62.html regarding why this is ungood. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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