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by outworlder 2541 days ago
Isn't this a case of

"It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" ?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...

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Exactly. It reminds me of that PostgreSQL CVE issue recently discussed, where the security breach was that someone with admin privileges on a PostgreSQL instance could execute code as the postgres user.

People fail to consider the threat model in some of these cases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659684