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From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: bin owns stuff (was: Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX)
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Date: 15 Sep 88 00:14:52 GMT
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Jim Haynes <haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU> writes:

	But making everything 755 allows a user to make himself a
	complete binary-only copy of the system without getting a
	license.

Also, strings(1)ing a binary is a good way to tell if a certain bug
is still around or not.  Making binaries unreadable might also have
stopped a lot of the nonsense with ptrace ...

/jordan