Maybe, I don't know, I am not an expert in security, but take a look at www.astalavista.com and you will see more links about how to "Crack Linux" Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 5:11 AM Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux > Hi Teddy, > > > Do you know that there are security features for Windows also? > > I am not talking about Windows 9X systems, of course. > > I am using Windows 2000 and you can set an NTFS partition with more rights > > for each folder or file than under Linux. > > You can log in as another user with less rights to delete or edit files > and > > a virus will have the same rights like you, like in Linux. > I must disagree with this statement. There is a well-known vulnerability in > NT/2K that allows you to gain local admin priviledges by writing a specific > value to a specific memory location. It is fairly well documented and most > sites that deal with exploits for M.S. os's should be able to provide the > location and sample code to actually exploit the flaw. M.S. released a > patch, but it just shifted the memory location, which was found again. > Bottom line, as long as they use a memory flag that can be accessed by "user > space" programs (to use the unix/Linux term) they will continue to be > insecure against anything with "local" access. > Cecil > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
