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Am Dienstag 05. April 2005 17:41 schrieb Vernon Mauery:
>  This makes sense because a particularly malicious
> place to put something like this is a worm that attaches to your boot
> loader.  Then, even doing it in the kernel at boot time is too late.

I understand... Didn't know that worms could attach to the bootloader :-)
Well, then even fixing this in the bootloader would be too late, if the worm
could simply replace the bootloader. I guess it's not a kernel-issue then and
should really be addressed in the boot-up sequence (as long as BIOS vendors
fail to fix it), be it with or without initrd.

regards,
Jonas

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