On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:27:32PM +0200, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: > After all, a BO in directX is not such a > big surprise. Almost everything else can get windows in trouble so why should > directx be an exception? To be fair, buffer overflow exploits can happen just as easily in Linux or any other OS. This isn't an area where Linux is inherently more secure than Windows, except that in *n*x the scope for damage is more limited if the compromised program in question runs as an unpriviliged user. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
