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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by Volpe on Friday October 18, 2013 @03:15AM (#6570188)
An interactive shell (like bash/python/irb) is untrusted code (i.e the user can type whatever the hell they like). But I don't/shouldn't need root to run it.
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by riquito on Friday October 18, 2013 @04:51AM (#6570398)
His point was that you need root "to install it", not "to run it".
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by Volpe on Friday October 18, 2013 @06:15AM (#6570606)
Wait, but 'install' means 'download' ? So if chrome was a single .py file, which I downloaded, and ran with python. Thats fine. But because it's a .exe, i need root... ?

I fail to see the difference. Sorry.

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