RE: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 Jo-Even.Skarstein@vital.no wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz [SMTP:draco@obta.uw.edu.pl]
> > Sent:	Friday, January 12, 2001 4:33 PM
> > To:	MiNT mailing list
> > Subject:	RE: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues
> > 
> > Last year I wrote three ones spending 20 minutes on it (including
> > compiling). All of them gave root privileges for an ordinary user. I tried
> > 
> ....and you obviously used it to steal valuable information from lots of
> unsuspecting MiNT-users, right? I find it hard to believe that real world
> scumbags would bother with something like this. There's simply nothing to
> gain by it. It's far easier to hack Windows-machines, simply because there
> are zillions of them on the net, each of them with zillions of security
> holes. Then you can make it to the headlines.

 Altho I think you have a point, Jo Even, I think that point is very weak
:) Thinking like "we're so small that nobody wants to exploit us, so lets
not improve our systems" is not gonna get us anywhere. I think Draco is
perfectly right, we should get rid of this as soon as possible.




 Regards,
 
 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org - http://assemsoft.atari.org