Re: single machine debugging?/advice for noob on OS X panic
Re: single machine debugging?/advice for noob on OS X panic
- Subject: Re: single machine debugging?/advice for noob on OS X panic
- From: Eric R Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:07:32 -0700
David,
Thanks for your work on the backtrace. I'll file a bug and pass the
info along
to the Azureus developers.
To put it more in perspective, the odds of this being helpful to a
virus (unless
the goal of the virus were to cause a kernel panic) are probably
roughly on
the same order as the odds of Ralph Nader winning today's election by a
landslide. :-)
Actually, I *was* thinking that some malicious person might simply seek
to cause
panics on lots of Mac systems. Not a big deal, so long as the system
isn't doing
anything very important, comes back up and critical data hasn't been
damaged.
Alot of qualifiers there, though... I wasn't trying to suggest that
the vulnerability
could be used as the basis for self-replicating code. One could use
spam/social
engineering (eg, phishing), hacked websites or other means to get the
code
executing on people's systems.
As for Nader, he's looking strong for 2012 or maybe 2016... Of course
the
machines will have taken over by then, but we can always send the
governor
of California back in time to straighten things out. ;)
Just my $0.02. As always, my opinions rarely (if ever) reflect the
views of my
employer. :-)
^I have the very same problem with my employer. :)
--EJ
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