Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:27:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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Take it to t13@t13.org
I will meet you there!
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Karen Shaeffer wrote: > > > > > Thank you for the nice summary. And, certainly the patch should be applied. > > > > > > But you have described defective hardware. And despite the patch, it is still > > > possible for a malicious root to exploit this defective hardware. So, this > > > is ultimately a hardware manufacturer issue. A list of boards with the defective > > > disk controller chip should be released to the public, so consumers can be > > > aware of the problem and *NOT* purchase these controllers in the future. > > > > Assume no hardware has defects, it is an exploit against the ATA SPECS. > > Then perhaps the ATA SPECS should be questioned if the ATA SPECS allow > for this. A hardware jumper should be required. Either that or a method by > which the drive can be recovered (such as good quality motherboards have for > their bioses) should be defined. > > Stephen >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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