Re: security issue: hard disk lock

Am Dienstag 05. April 2005 17:41 schrieb Vernon Mauery: >  This makes sense because a particularly malicious > place to put something like this is a worm that attaches to your boot > loader.  Then, even doing it in the kernel at boot time is too late. I understand... Didn't know that worms could a

Re: security issue: hard disk lock

Hi Alan! Thanks for the info Am Montag 11. April 2005 17:36 schrieb Alan Cox: > It makes little difference as the attacker can replace the kernel and > reboot. > Anyway they can flash erase your video card bios, your IDE firmware, > your BIOS > and far more just as easily. Yes, but a new video-c

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the bug still occurs. do i have to set up something in make menuconfig? if so, what? -regards, Jonas Diemer PS: I have NOT subscribed to the list, so please CC me your response. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

VIA timer bug

the bug still occurs. do i have to set up something in make menuconfig? if so, what? -regards, Jonas Diemer PS: I have NOT subscribed to the list, so please CC me your response. PPS: Sorry for posting twice, the first posting lacked a subject entry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

usb mouse problem

Hi! I just installed 2.4.5-ac6 (from 2.4.5). I needed the ac kernel to fix my VIA timer bug. Now, my Intellimouse Explorer (USB) seems to have problems. It doesn't go smooth anymore. when i move the mouse slowly, it does not continually go on the screen. sometimes it stops for some time, just

VIA timer bugfix, patch for 2.4.5

Hi! I have compiled a little patch that contains the VIA timer bugfix (from the ac kernel). the patch is against linus' 2.4.5 kernel. I have compiled and ran the patched kernel sucessfully. the only changes made by this patch are done to linux/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c I would like to have thi

security issue: hard disk lock

Hello! I don't know if you guys already know, there is a possible security risk with all modern desktop-pcs and ata hard drives. In short: Modern ata drives can be locked by password. This lock could be set by a malicous software. This security feature can be frozen, so no programs can set a l