Re: [PATCH] drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c, Video DVD playback support

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2005-01-25 at 09:29, Elias da Silva wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:01, you wrote:
> Yes, sometimes you have to risk broken software in favor of augmented
> security, but so far we only have broken software.

Well let me see in 2.6.5 if you could read open the block device at all
you could erase the drive firmware. I think we've significantly improved
security actually.

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