On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 21:45 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:

> Not really getting this. For any configuration task where you replace
> editing a root owned text file with access through some authorised
> gui, that gui is still vulnerable.

That gui's code, unlike emacs, doesn't allow you to write arbitrary
data to arbitrary files.  I can feed arbitrary input events to an emacs
window and have it modify any file the process could modify.  It's a
lot harder to get, say, virt-manager to write arbitrary data to
arbitrary places.

- ajax
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