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Linux Kernel Security, Again
Jason Miller, 2005-03-16

It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions.

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Linux Kernel Security, Again 2005-03-18
Anonymous
A nice sentiment, but unworkable, I'm afraid.

On your home box it isn't a problem. On any server it is, even if the only real user is root. The reason is simple: you don't want someone who managed to gain local user through an exploit to be able to DoS the machine.

Security consists of layers....

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