I haven't looked at the article but this sounds like a local exploit, right? Those were important in the timesharing era, but with personal computers we tempor

I haven't looked at the article but this sounds like a local exploit, right? Those were important in the timesharing era, but with personal computers we temporarily had an era when we didn't have to let hostile code run on our computers. When will we learn that we shouldn't have given that up? Local exploits will never go away, at least on high performance machines.