Almost every program that we run has access to the environment, so nothing stops them from curling our credentials to some nefarious server.

Why don’t we put credentials in files and then pass them to the programs that need them? Maybe coupled with some mechanism that prevents executables from reading any random file except those approved.

  • erwan
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    1 year ago

    If you run a binary written with bad intentions, you’re doomed anyway.

    This is the security model we have currently.