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A video game on the average Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop has full read and write access to the memory of a tax app on the same desktop What? No...

• richardwhiuk 10y ago
  Not the in process memory, but yes to the stored data, which is arguably as bad.
  • skissane 10y ago
    On Linux, generally speaking yes to reading the in-process memory too. I can read /proc/$PID/mem provided my UID = the effective UID of the process. Or I can also use ptrace(), again if my UID = the effective UID of the process, both to read the processes' memory and even to modify its code at runtime. (Some LSMs will block this...)
  • felixgallo 10y ago
    What? No...
    • ReverseCold 10y ago
      Many games on Windows even ask for administrator to run (or update), so that's already game over from a security perspective.
• fulafel 10y ago
  Debugging APIs.