Re: Binary only module overview

From: Crispin Cowan (crispinat_private)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 17:36:11 PDT

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    richard offer wrote:
    
    >Whats technically to stop me writing a device driver that replaces the
    >exiting capable() code with my own implementation ? Likewise with
    >intercepting and replacing system calls ?
    >
    It's an obscurity defense: make it difficult, and therefore unprofitable 
    to do so ;-)
    
    Crispin
    
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