On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>> > Here is the rouge program that can be slipped into CRON.
>> > A perl script......you name the access point and it gets permission
>> > KISS your DATA GONE!
>> >
>>
>> it needs root right? so with this util root can trash the disk.. so what's
>> new?
>
>All you have to do is trick the kernel into thinking the access is root.
And all I have to do is "trick the kernel" into sending five bytes to your
ATAPI or SCSI drive and it'll be chicken-fried! (12 bytes to some drives and
it'll be on it's way back to the factory for a new flash rom.)
--Ricky
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