Reply to post:

"What if " [snip paranoia bait]

There are a zillion "what if" possible questions out there. We can _easily_ "what if" ourselves into a completely unproductive state. But that wouldn't be practical, would it?

I doubt that a bug would be "intrinsic to the interface" and EVEN if it _IS_ you RE-DESIGN THE INTERFACE to fix it (not slap on a 'patch' with whitelists and process killing as a "fix").

I have to wonder how those white lists work, anyway. Could a trojan horse application simply write a process with "the right credentials" and _BYPASS_ that anyway?

see, ya gotta think like an evil hacker to see the potential workarounds in order to recognize that a horsecrap "solution" (like white lists and process killing) is simply PURE HORSECRAP??

FIX THE ORIGINAL BUG instead, I say. So did Linus, apparently.