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Re:Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming langua... by saagarjha on Monday December 02, 2019 @06:36PM (#21688312)
A shell spawned in an unprivileged process is not very useful.
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Re:Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming langua... by pjmlp on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:49AM (#21690266)
One doesn't need to spawn a shell.
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Re:Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming langua... by iCodeSometime on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:25PM (#21704339)
Injecting and executing code inside an unprivileged process is not very useful.
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Re:Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming langua... by pjmlp on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:35AM (#21712112)
Some black hats would consider stealing data, data corruption or triggering DOS already very useful for ransonware.
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