Re: Disturbing news..

Alexander Viro
2001-03-28T13:26:53Z

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=lh
>
> Isn't it time to change the ELF format to stop this crap?

<shrug> If you run untrusted binaries - you are screwed. If you run
them as root - all users on your system are screwed. If your MUA
(or browser, etc.) can run untrusted code - see above. If you have
a dual-boot system and one of the OSes is compromised - all of them
are. Nothing to do about that. What's new here? Don't be an idiot
nd don't use crapware...