Re: secure installation

Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:

> Just curious; anyone can forget a user account, but how did the
> attacker get root?

There are a *lot* more privilege escalation attacks than there are remote exploits. Just in the Linux kernel, a new one seems to show up every six months or so.

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