Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: quinot@inf.enst.fr
- Cc: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, quinot@infres.enst.fr, Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- From: Jacob Kuntz <jpk@cape.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:53:52 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000205135352.C761@megabite.net>
- Reply-to: Jacob Kuntz <jpk@cape.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
in the world of PCs, its not uncommon to be able to take over a system by
rebooting it. i have always assumed that people realize that no matter how
the software is configured, if you have access to the phisical hardware
controlling it, you can do what ever you want with it. it's foolish to argue
about this.
i was however not made aware of mbr's capabilites when i read the install
guide during my migration from slackware. this does need to be addressed.
undocumented features suck.
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