Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:28:25 +0100 | From | Johnny Tevessen <> | Subject | Re: /dev/nvram on my Celebris |
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Quoting Riccardo Facchetti (fizban@tin.it):
> Machine > completely unusable ... BIOS destroyed ... return to the shop. > > So read the documentation, it save your ass :)
Yes. So: Nobody sane working on a box that *might* be taken over should enable such settings at compile time. He/she won't even be able to reboot if someone became root (by a yet unknown attack that might even pass a firewall).
There's a good reason why these settings aren't enabled by default.
ciao, johnny -- Trust no-one.
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