Monday, April 02, 2007

Scary Cursors

If this story about vulnerable cursors does not tip us over the line, what will? Whoddathunk that a screen cursor could be the gateway for bad things on your PC?

What to do?

Capability-based systems go back to the 1960s. Someday we'll have them on the Internets, a series of tubes.

How many billions spent on broken security mechanisms? And we still have screen cursors with the power over the entire machine.

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