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- From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:09:13 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <38104@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Dec22.153943.20019@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
-
- >Andy Finkel (andy@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
-
- >: If you are interested in the subject, you might want to do some research
- >: sometime. The Internet Worm is fairly interesting, since it ran
- >: on Unix boxes. (remember, Unix has protected memory).
- >:
-
- >Yes, Unix has protected memory; that doesn't mean that it's bug free. The
- >Worm took advantage of bugs in Unix, and took immense knowledge and ingenuity
- >to create. On the other hand, a second-week computer science student would
- >have no problem intentionally screwing up a system without memory protection.
-
- Aren't the both of you forgetting that UNIX also has user
- privileges, and that's what makes it harder to write something
- that can infiltrate the filesystem? On single-user things like
- the AmigaOS and OS/2, a program can still trash the disk if it
- wanted to, right? I think it goes beyond memory protection.
-
- --Andre
-
- --
- Andre Yew andrey@cco.caltech.edu (131.215.139.2)
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