Re: Reading /dev/mem by dd

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:12:09 -0200
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > I don't think that we prevent any access to device registers in
> > /dev/mem - if you read something that has side effects and something
> > breaks, well I guess you get to keep both pieces :-) There's a
> > reason it's root-only..
> 
> We should.  Imaging /dev/mem is one of the oldest tricks in the book of the
> forensics people, they do it to live systems to help track down WTF happened
> to a compromised host.  This kind of crap bites them hard.

Any forensics person who images /dev/mem needs to go back to school.

Alan
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