Rutgers University writes malware for Freerunner

Jakob jackramone at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 23 09:23:31 CET 2010


On 2/23/10, Michael Smith <openmoko at netapps.com.au> wrote:
> Having your web browser run as root is very dangerous. I hope we fix that
> soon.
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It's not hard to run your browser on the neo as user. Though it should
be made default.
e.g. in SHR one could ask the user at first startup to create a user
and then run the browser, piding and all those internet applications
with the rights of this user.

Jake



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