Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:05:54 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: My spin on the flash bios interface... |
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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.
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