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This likely extends to NT, BSD, Darwin, and most other kernels. Kernels are tricky beasts. You could just say “not ever been a kernel that lacks...”
by vermilingua 8y ago
This likely extends to NT, BSD, Darwin, and most other kernels. Kernels are tricky beasts. You could just say “not ever been a kernel that lacks...”
- userbinator 8y agoDOS. It has no privilege escalation exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. Personally, I think as a regular user of a PC, it's the remote exploits that you really need to worry about, the ones of the form "connect to the Internet and get pwned without doing anything else", fortunately quite rare; and in this era of user-hostile devices, local privilege escalation can even be friendly in terms of rooting and jailbreaks.
- pdonis 8y ago> DOS. It has no privilege escalation exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. No, DOS has no protection against exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. Anyone with access to a DOS system is automatically root and can do anything. "No exploits" is not a good description of that state of affairs.
- pjmlp 8y agoIn fact, exactly because of that, DOS and all the other home system OSes had plenty of virus to choose from.
- babyloneleven 8y agoseL4