Rutgers University writes malware for Freerunner

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Tue Feb 23 12:21:48 CET 2010


Em 23-02-2010 08:23, Jakob escreveu:
> 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.
>> --
>> Michael Smith
>> +61 416 062 898
>> http://glitch.tl
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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.

Everything should be run as the user. Using dbus should be enough for
getting the priviledged stuff done at FSO level.

Rui



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