On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> 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.
>
> You can't stop root from doing anything, even in theory - root has access
> to the kernel image, either on disk or in RAM and can patch it to do
> whatever they'd like..
>
> It's nice to protect from doing stupid things by accident, but let's not
> pretend we're doing anything more than that.
But we are and I guess you just can't see that point or I can not explain
it so you can...sorry
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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