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That web PXE boot is pretty cool though. Don't try it at home, do it at a friend's house.
by oakwhiz 13y ago
That web PXE boot is pretty cool though. Don't try it at home, do it at a friend's house.
- djjaxe 13y agoDon't mess up/risk your own computer just your friends... You must have trusting friends. lol
- zurn 13y agoThat's not really different from piping to shell, risk-wise.
- dllthomas 13y agoYes it is. If I'm piping to a shell as an unprivileged user, there needs to be an additional round of exploits to do nastiness to other than that user. For those whose security model looks like http://xkcd.com/1200 http://xkcd.com/1200 that's not a big difference; but depending on context it might be.
- zurn 13y agoBut your unprivileged user account is going to have all the stuff that matters anyway.
- dllthomas 13y agoI raised that point with the comic. Frequently that's the case, in which case yes, not much different (though maybe it's less likely to do hardware damage, maybe...). It's not always the case.