On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 2.4. And no one in this office will, either. If all versions of Linux
> are susceptible, maybe we'll look for a different OS where it is more
> difficult to accomplish this damage. We cannot afford data destruction,
> but even more importantly we CERTAINLY cannot afford having our disks
> physically destroyed.
What if there is no such OS, but rather a flaw in the whole hardware
architecture design? Where do you run then?
If Andre hadn't posted the code, someone eventually would had. It's not
unfortunate he did that at all; but rather quite fortunate that he did.
Because now it brings it out to the public. Do you really think he was the
first one to notice this?
mrc
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dalgoda@ix.netcom.com and be right all the time, or not work at all
www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
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