Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:00:32 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 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. > > Does this help explain the issue or should I provide a "disk2brick.c" > > program to make the point clearer? This will vaporize a drive to the > > replacement level. Yes you can to that today! > > Ok, you prevent program from sending DISKTOBRICK IOCTL as root... > > So disk2brick.c will just bypass the kernel API and bit-bang on the IDE > controller directly...
If a usermode app can hit the hardware directly like that, there's something VERY broken...
James.
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