> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > The object is to protect this from happening even if you are ROOT or have
> > stolen ROOT priviledges.
> > Does this help explain the issue or should I provide a "disk2brick.c"
> > program to make the point clearer? This will vaporize a drive to the
> > replacement level. Yes you can to that today!
>
> Ok, you prevent program from sending DISKTOBRICK IOCTL as root...
>
> So disk2brick.c will just bypass the kernel API and bit-bang on the IDE
> controller directly...
If a usermode app can hit the hardware directly like that, there's
something VERY broken...
James.
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