On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:18:03AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Exmaple: You`re at meeting and somebody unplugs your pgt-Card and voila > your kernel crashs. I would call this a clearly DoS. Because after the > "attack" your OS is kinda useless because of the kernel panic.
Kernel panics suck, but they do not qualify as DoS attacks when physical access is necessary to cause them. That somebody in your example could have just poured water onto your machine and rendered it unusable for much longer than a kernel panic.
