Things you HATE about Macs...

[zync]

Well if it's low level stuff (like screwing with the kernel) that you're after, pretty much anything that can write arbitrary binary data to a file pointer will work provided it's run with sufficient privileges. Hell, you *could* do it in PHP if you really, really, really, really wanted to.

That's true. I heard someone mention somewhere writing a virus in PHP. I forget what permissions PHP runs with though. I guess it runs under whatever apache, or IIS, is set to. I think it's some sort of web user. I'm not sure if you could escalate permissions with PHP though. I don't know. I'm sure some people have PHP running as root.

 

[janstett]

I never saw the point to ICQ, why would ANYONE think it's a good idea to have people remember which number represents who?

LOL, reminds me of the pre-ISP internet days... CompuServe had user IDs like 734323.2343@compuserve.com. I think Prodigy did for a long time too.

 

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