On 8/22/05, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 22 August 2005 16.08, W. Borgert wrote: > [...] > > This is a really nice idea: A DD with a strange sense of humour > > could > [...] > > If we're starting to worry about what kind of damage a DD can do to the > world by providing some bogus uploads, let's just not. Any DD can cause > code to be executed as root on a potentially very big number of machines > world wide, source-only uploads or not, and there are many ways to > obfuscate malicious code within a big, complex application.
With a (far) better privilege system you could avoid running most if not all code as root, but that's another topic.
