Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:47:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, James Sutherland wrote: > I used a bad word of choice. I can not DISKTOBRICK. > But can genrate code that will attempt and may have success. > Regardless do you want access to such attempts available in the kernel? > Unchecked?
If it can attempt and success purely as a non-root-user, then of course it should be patched.
If you're trying to prevent destruction by root, it's only an illusion.
-Dan
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