[rescue] NeWS

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

>> - you are handing over the keys to your hardware's most privileged
>> mode, allowing whoever wrote that code to do whatever they might
>> happen to feel like with your system.
>
> Yes, but that's far less likely, and it doesn't happen through an API
> that was deliberately designed to allow it, and it is very unlikely to
> happen from a userland software install like it can in Windows.

Which API entry points, in particular, are you talking about?

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