[openbeos] Re: OBOS Security
- From: ZairTheWise@xxxxxxxxxxxx (C. W. Strommer)
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:17:19 -0400
It IS a bad design, but I bet that at the moment it was written it seemed
perfectly reasonable.
Clay Vincent Schentrup <cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I disagree. By the same reasons, one could argue that any system that has
>>buffer overflow errors is horribly written, or any software that has bogs is
>>decadent software. The reality is that such errors/mistakes/vulnerabilities
>>will potentially be part of any system until they are discovered. It's just
>>that you can't fix what you don't know is broken.
> Well, I just got the impression that the whole structure of Windows
>messaging is fundamentally bad. If they are allowing an app to send a message
>directly to another app, that does not get handled directly by the kernel or
>some other secure interface that can report the true originating thread for
>the
>message, then it seems like a very bad design.
>
>Clay
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