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SubjectRe: scsi-destroyer.c to come...
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> It is an unrestricted SCSI low-level call.
>
> Prepare to reformat your drive after it is executed, this rips everything.
> It does not touch the hardware in any bad ways.
>
> It is small, compact, and can be pushed into a shellstack.
>
> There is no protection patch for this to date.
> Your only way to stop it is a SCSI-IOCTL command-parser.
>
> You asked, have fun........

So what?

It is _much_ easier to do "cat </dev/zero >/dev/sda"
and about as likely to be effective.

David.
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