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1997 Feb 03
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Tiger team.
...curity issues.
The main "plan of attack" is to
1) Create a few documents:
"how to write a secure application".
"How to verify an existing application".
2) Find all setuid applications and verify their security.
Maybe we''ll come up with "junk XXXXmail, use Xmail" (censored)
Maybe we''ll end up with a secure XXXXmail (Nah...)
3) Find all programs that "root" uses, especially those run from "cron"
and verify wether they can be fooled into giving away their privileges.
I''ll try to get a majordomo s...