Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:50:52 +0200 | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c) |
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On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:49:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > system. I hate having to expose everything, but now the hackers of the > > world know now to take down Linux Boxes one by one. > > Actually what concerns me is you abused your access to IDE specifications and > produced code any clueful Windows virus writer can add to something like > ILoveYou and wipe out millions of windows pcs where thre isnt even a security
You want the new insidious outlook hole, not a wimpy virus ;) Anyway... how worse is disk2brick from a nvram zap for joe user/dealer? At least with the former they may even get to boot the computer. If its a standard it is open. And if it is open, anyone sufficiently motivated (and clueful as you point out) can look for it. -- ____/| Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C =(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for 104B78C56 B72F0822 U chaos and madness await thee at its end." hkp://keys.pgp.com
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