On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Tim May wrote:
This is called "providing crypto hooks," at least in the many threads on this list and on Usenet where the details of this have been discussed.
I wonder what will happen with future operating systems that use the everything is an object approact - where one can simply call ANY method in an object... (Sort of like OpenDOC, if it didn't die...) of course some methods will be marked as private, but supposing that someone forgot to mark a method as private... say somewhere in the core of the OS, right before the TCP stack. <evil grin> And suppose you could patch that code with code that uh, compresses, yeah, that's the ticket, uh, compresses it with a very slow and shitty compression algorithm that need, uh, a compression dictionary (key) to decompress, yeah, that's the ticket. :) And suppose everyone wrote their apps and operating systems to be patchable in this way.... =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos================ .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see you|./|\. ..\|/..|sunder@sundernet.com|once again. I thought you were hidinng.|/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |And you thought that I had run away. |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|and there we were.... |..... ======================== http://www.sundernet.com ===========================