Re: Privilege-escalation attacks on NT-based Windows are unfixable

From: Edward Elliott (nobody@127.0.0.1)
Date: 08/23/02 

From: Edward Elliott <nobody@127.0.0.1>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:36:15 GMT

Barry Margolin wrote:
> You trust the web sites you access to give you the expected information.
> You trust your Usenet news server to forward your posts without molesting
> them. Etc.

Yes but I have no special trust in an individual node. Any
modifications to the content would be easily detectable, at which point
I could switch to a number of other hosts providing the same service. 

-- 
Edward Elliott

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