Re: Cancel session shutdown

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Xavier Claessens wrote:

> I writing a xchat plugin to provide a dbus service. The goal is to have
> external applications that can talk to xchat and do everything a xchat

An often used argument when comparing windows to linux is that even if a
hacker was able to run an exploit on a linux system, he would in most
cases only be able to do things as the user (not as root). This kind of
plugin makes me wonder how much damage a hacker could do as a user...

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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