On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> If the security isn't perfect how about we *fix* them instead of
> trying to fix the impossible. If the abuser has root it isn't going to
> make any difference. Hell, the abuser could *reboot* the machine into
> some stupid OS and set it up such that it blows away the disk. So much
> for all of the crap we stuck in the linux kernel to not allow this. Now
> we have a bunch of crap in the kernel that doesn't actually protect
> anything. I thought the general idea was that excess crap in the kernel
> was *bad*.
OPEN up your mind and think that securing all sides of an issue is better
than depending on one and only one.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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