Re: How can they know?
Re: How can they know?
- Subject: Re: How can they know?
- From: email@hidden (Peter Corlett)
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:48:34 +0000 (UTC)
- Newsgroups: newsgate.cocoa-dev
- Organization: cabal.org.uk listgate, Warwickshire, UK
- Resent-date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:07:03 +0100
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Lorenzo <email@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> Since I use the content of that file to give the user the
> permission to run, I would like to know: can the user feed my
> application with some other data coming from a different server?
Sure they can, and it's pretty trivial too. Editing the hosts file is
the simplest method, and there's plenty more tricks up the network
admin's sleeve if you attempt to detect or evade that one.
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