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Blog October 3, 2023
A Comparison Between the Real User ID and the Effective User ID is not Enough to Prevent Privilege Escalation
In Unix-like systems, processes have a real and effective user ID determining their access permissions. While usually identical, they can differ in situations like when the setuid bit is activated in executables.
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Blog July 24, 2010
Do not trust your browser's status bar
Many people rely on the status bar for checking the destination of links, but it has been proven before that it is easy to falsify.