On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:03:56AM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > It seems to me that to do much damage to my machine, you need to get a > shell with root access.
Depends on what you regard as damage. Do you need root privileges to use your private gpg keys ??? > I never run a web browser as root. If you run your web browser under the same account that you use for gpg, vulnerabilities in your browser *potentially* allow an attacker to access your private keys. Same is true for your mail program, PDF reader, messaging client, ...
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