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It's still pretty scary to have computers where all of memory is readabe from every process, even if you own them.
by kazagistar 9y ago
It's still pretty scary to have computers where all of memory is readabe from every process, even if you own them.
- merb 9y agowell 50:50 chances are high that if a process goes bogus, that you have more problems than just "memory is readable from every process". (of course that does not apply to clients where code can run in jit (javascript), software that communicates with the internet, etc and runs on a remote machine). most servers probably should only run trusted code (of course that is mostly never the case because no company evaluates every process they running) but chances are high that if some uses linux and gnu stuff that most shady stuff gets catched. (I mean if not, some people could do a lot of bad stuff, consider a misbehaving systemd, nginx/apache, databases, which could basically do a lot of harm.)