From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
> >The SLS is a very bad security risk. With fake pointers
> >one can access everything everywhere. My eBook
> >shows a simple tool, MIEXPLR, to do just that.
>
> But a program has to run in system state to do this, right?
>

yes, but a user state program can switch itself into system
state and out at will. The archives are full of discussions of this.



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