Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c)

From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@macula.net)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 13:50:52 EST

On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:49:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > system. I hate having to expose everything, but now the hackers of the
> > world know now to take down Linux Boxes one by one.
>
> Actually what concerns me is you abused your access to IDE specifications and
> produced code any clueful Windows virus writer can add to something like
> ILoveYou and wipe out millions of windows pcs where thre isnt even a security

You want the new insidious outlook hole, not a wimpy virus ;) Anyway...
how worse is disk2brick from a nvram zap for joe user/dealer? At least with
the former they may even get to boot the computer. If its a standard it is
open. And if it is open, anyone sufficiently motivated (and clueful as you
point out) can look for it. 

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