Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:27:14 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, dworkin@rover.village.org Subject: Re: Security (was: Re: Two commands: icat and ils) Message-ID: <199601221527.QAA05440@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 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
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