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From: | Pavel Janík |
Subject: | Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:22:57 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i386-suse-linux-gnu) |
From: Steve Kemp <address@hidden> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:49:01 +0000 > But it would appear to have the major flaw that a malicious user > could fake their scores with almost no effort, eg: > > [matrix] skx > update-score --file=/var/games/emacs/snake-score --add-score "Steve 99999999999999 points" I do not think we should/could prevent this. Note, that this is possible right now too... -- Pavel Janík Have you considered defenestrating your computer and replacing Windows with GNU/Linux? It is a shame for you to be in bondage to Microsoft. -- Richard Stallman in emacs-devel
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