Can you Trust Your Computer?

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For a few minutes, try thinking like a computer criminal. A few months ago you were fired from Big Whammix, the large smokestack employer on the other side of town, and now you're working for a competing company, Bigger Bammers. Your job at Bammers is corporate espionage; you've spent the last month trying to break into Big Whammix's central mail server. Yesterday, you discovered a bug in a version of send mail [1] that Whammix is running, and you gained superuser access.