Once upon a time, Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx> said: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Unprivileged users don't have access to the previous contents of ram allocated > > to their processes. > > You're sure about that? What evidence do you offer? Can you point to > auto-scrub code paths in all the library APIs for freeing memory? Read the kernel source. > > What is the threat model you are trying to guard against? > > Rather than merely imply that such threat models are beyond the scope > of Fedora, wouldn't it be better to refer the OP to a wiki article on > the subject, or to the dev list if there is no wiki article? Go read a book on Unix. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
