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SubjectRe: disk-destroyer.c
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> The object is to protect this from happening even if you are ROOT or have
> stolen ROOT priviledges.

You can't stop root from doing anything, even in theory - root has access
to the kernel image, either on disk or in RAM and can patch it to do
whatever they'd like..

It's nice to protect from doing stupid things by accident, but let's not
pretend we're doing anything more than that.

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