Re: sudo disappears after latest update

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 09:42 +0000, James Hogarth wrote:
> On 11 February 2016 at 06:48, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Allegedly, on or about 10 February 2016, jd1008 sent:
> > > I am sorry to burst the bubble that was perpetrated by Sun
> > > Microsystems. I worked at Sun Microsystems as a contractor and
> > > talked
> > > to a very senior developer at Menlo Park. I knew this developer
> > > from
> > > working with him in a previous company. Under my oath never to
> > > reveal
> > > his name, he clued me in that the fictitious "sandbox" was the
> > > entire
> > > system.
> > 
> > I'd go along with that, I never believed the sandbox thing.  After
> > all,
> > you can upload any file of your choosing through a Java thing in a
> > website, and it could save a file to anywhere you selected.  That's
> > hardly sandboxed.
> > 
> > And, if you went through the Java preferences, on those browsers
> > that
> > gave you an extensive interface.  You could select all sorts of
> > breakout
> > allowances, many of which were preset to allowed.
> > 
> > 
> Just to bring things back to reality though. The claim was that
> *javascript* could execute sudo commands and has full access to the
> system
> (no sandbox) and that has nothing to do with java
> applets/applications
> whatsoever.

Exactly. I regret even mentioning Java and starting this hare.

poc
-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org



[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [EPEL Devel]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux