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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


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