On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > 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
So we block these commands through the kernel API ...
... so I will just open /dev/mem and in/outb() bit-bang the controller
directly ...
... what have we gained then?
We can protect against badly written program which sends these commands
by accident, but claiming it will protect against bad things by malicious
root program is just an illusion...
-Dan
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