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by reverendsteveii 349 days ago
I'm taking

>run DOOM

as the new

>cat /etc/passwd

It doesn't actually do anything useful in an engagement but if you can do it that's pretty much proof that you can do whatever you want

2 comments

To be fair (or pedantic), in this post they didn't have root, so cat'ing etc/passwd would not have been possible, whereas installing a doom apk is trivial.
/etc/passwd is world readable by default.
To be even more pedantic, it's also not present on Android.
Good points, I've been out pedantic-ed!
not if you fork an open source os and add /etc/passwd you haven't been
Popping Calc!

(I'm showing my age here, aren't I?)