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Local privilege escalation is always bad because it means you're one malware payload or RCE away from being rooted and conscripted into someone's botnet (or wor
by cheald 12y ago
Local privilege escalation is always bad because it means you're one malware payload or RCE away from being rooted and conscripted into someone's botnet (or worse). This isn't just a physical access concern.
- andreyf 12y agoWhat about without local privilege escalation? Is there no way for a malware payload or RCE to turn your computer into a botnet without root privileges?
- dzhiurgis 12y agoThere are advertising networks that use JavaScript on client machine do distributed computing. Is that a botnet or not?
- robbintt 12y agoDo you know where I can observe this? I'd like to review the code.
- cheald 12y agoThere certainly is, but rooting a box lets you ensure that you stuff says in place. Once a box is rooted, its owner can never really be sure they have it clean without wiping and rebuilding it.