[clue-talk] Benefits of SSDs : was new processors

[Shawn Perry]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:44 AM, <grant at amadensor.com> wrote:
>
> > Browser cache doesn't belong in /tmp except perhaps personal machines.
> > It's
> > a security issue.
> >
>
>
> How is it a security issue?
>
>
> su - bob
> mkdir /tmp/bob-tmp
> chmod -R go-rwx /tmp/bob-tmp
>
> I expect that I missed something.   Are you worried for the security of
> the machine as a whole, or for the security of the info in the cache
> against other users on the same machine?
>

Users on the same machine.  I might be jumping the gun here, but I
don't feel like that's the right place for things like that.  MAYBE
/var/tmp, but even that doesn't feel right to me.