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SubjectRe: My spin on the flash bios interface...
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Linux Mailing list account wrote:

> I think quite a few people are overlooking a key point about security:
>
> Once someone has hacked in and is root, they can already do these things.

> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
>
> > Binding it to a SysReq key might make it a "local only" type of function, but

We could mem-protect the flash region somewhere 'deeper down'
in the kernel _and_ SysRq-protect it. This would also protect
from people writing/insmodding their own version of the driver
once they're hacked in as root.

Rik.
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