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    SubjectRe: disk-destroyer.c
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    Hi,

    On 21 Jul 2000, David A. Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
    >
    > Ahh, but you've set up an impossible burden. It is _impossible_
    > for the kernel to ensure that a malicious hacker who has obtained
    > root on your machine does not destroy your hardware. After all,
    > that hacker can always re-install an old, unsafe kernel version
    > and ioctl() away, or even bit-bang directly to the raw device!

    IMHO you can avoid this by booting from read-only media. Of course you
    should lock the server room's door ;-)
    Just my 2 pence...


    Regards,

    Jochen Striepe.

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