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SubjectRe: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
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In message <19990612211802.A28762@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu 
writes:
+-----
| On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:09:27PM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
| > > yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
| > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:59:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
| > > > > I would really like
| > > > > to boot up monolitic kernel on my laptop and _still_ use pcmcia ne2k.
| > > > Why?
| > > Faster. Smaller. Fewer TLB entries.
| > > Arguably by negligable amounts.
| > Also more secure, or at least less simple to do evil things if broken in to
|
| So someone breaks in and is able to either trash module objects or
| run insmod, and if there are no module objects, that person can
| now do less damage?
+--->8

If they can run insmod or trash module objects, they can replace the kernel
and run lilo, then force a reboot. I see no security improvement, and it's
not *that* much harder.

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