Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:22:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c) |
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On 24 Jul 2000, Shalon Wood wrote:
> That attitude might be acceptable if 20% of the drives were > vulnerable, but if 90% are vulnerable, things change. > > And the danger isn't from hostile root. The danger is from root > running software that's buggy and sends garbage to the disk. It's good > to make it harder to deliberately trash the disk, but yeah, root can > do it if root wants too. > > But root shouldn't be able to do it *accidentally*.
Okay, so tell me, how many reports of this happening have there been? This has been around for a *long* time, 2.0.x days at *least*. If 90% of disks are vulnerable then surely we'd have heard of something, as it is I don't believe there has been even one report of this.
Stephen
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