Re: ATA security commands, bug in atacontrol

2005-04-03 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, I did see that article but I've not settled on how if at > all to deal with it. The by far most secure method would be to > have ATA issue the freeze command ASAP in the probe/attach code, > thats about one line of code :) > > At any rate atacontrol is not the pl

Re: ATA security commands, bug in atacontrol

2005-04-03 Thread Søren Schmidt
ALeine wrote: Recent c't magazine article "At Your Disservice - How ATA security functions jeopardize your data", which you can find at the URL below, warns about the dangers of ATA security commands. Specifically, a malicious attacker with sufficient access could render a disk useless to the legit

ATA security commands, bug in atacontrol

2005-04-03 Thread ALeine
Recent c't magazine article "At Your Disservice - How ATA security functions jeopardize your data", which you can find at the URL below, warns about the dangers of ATA security commands. Specifically, a malicious attacker with sufficient access could render a disk useless to the legitimate owner o

improving documentation? (was Re: Kernel documentation and specification)

2005-04-03 Thread Derek VerLee
klowd9 - wrote: Why isnt a free copy of this book available online? The author obviously put alot of time and effort into making this excellent book, but so do thousands of other people writing code and papers every day, published freely on the internet, and they ask for nothing in return, be