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SubjectRe: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
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>do you really think a kernel driver (if KGI or anything else) can or
>even should protect the system from every possible abuse ? hey, why
>not talking about
>
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/mem
>or
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda

Hmmm. Let me think. Maybe that would be because any user can crash
their X server, but you need the appropriate permissions to overwrite
/dev/{mem,sda}. You can't protect the system from a malicious or
incompetent user with root access. You can protect it from "normal"
users.

Tet

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