Clinkle gets hacked before it even launches

Re:Clinkle gets hacked before it even launches by supergauntlet on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:16PM (#7154366)

I believe it has to do with Unix-like OSes always assigning the UID 0 to root.

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Re:Clinkle gets hacked before it even launches by lgas on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:25PM (#7154399)

This doesn't make any sense unless for some reason you are creating unix users based on the users in your application and using the application user ID as the unix user ID which would be silly.

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Re:Clinkle gets hacked before it even launches by mafuyu on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:35PM (#7154446)

The convention of 0 as NULL is more likely, as UID 0 doesn't really make sense in this context.

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