Subj : dumbest ideas
To   : Ogg
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Apr 28 2021 18:07:19

  Re: dumbest ideas
  By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Apr 26 2021 10:18 am

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Monday 26.04.21 - 04:50, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
 > 
 >  >> It's the home page www.ranum.com that looks totally out of place
 >  >> and is the one to avoid.
 > 
 >  A> The whole site is captcha blocked, included the /dumb folder. So no dice.
 > 
 > 
 > This copy:
 > 
 > http://kolico.ca/files/The-Six-Dumbest-Ideas-in-Computer-
 > Security.htm

Thank you very much.

Point 1 reminded me immediately of OpenBSD's pledge() and unveil() syscalls, which are
explicitly designed to prevent trustworthy programs from doing unexpected things.
Linux has been advancing in that field too with seccompand such, letting programs drop
privileges so they are less abusable.

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