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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Jonathan King wrote:
This is just the same old "keep tainted data away from the shell or you
will surely die" problem that's been a struggle in Unix since the 70s.
I assume that MacOS X is set up to discourage users from running always
with root permissions. That's an important protection against having
these "viruses" take over the system. A user can still do plenty of nasty
things though.
Computers are getting really powerful and the average guy has a pretty
darned fast network connection these days. Security had better keep up or
we're going to be having some huge hassles in coming years.
Mike
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