Was PGP Source, Now : Copy Protection

David_Biggins@usermgmt.com David_Biggins at usermgmt.com
Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:03:40 +0100


Nexus wrote:

> I don't care about privs, that's not the point, sorry, let me clarify.
> Regardless of what privs a program requires, it has to 
> interact via the OS -
> it will need API calls, kernel modules, system libraries.. 
> whatever.   

Why?  The OS does not intervene when I issue an ADD instruction, why/how
should it in this case, if it is a single unprivileged machine
instruction that I can execute?