From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ATA host-protected area (HPA) device mapper?
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:48:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150040920.3131.74.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060610115636.57029.qmail@web26907.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
> The simple solution is: you never boot from the hard disk, but from a
> physically write protected device (write protected floppy, non writeable
> CD or CDRW in a non writing CDROM drive, USB thumb drive with a physical
> write protect switch).
that's not totally fool proof either; after all an attacker can adjust
the nvram to change the boot device order.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-11 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-09 10:47 Etienne Lorrain
2006-06-09 14:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:55 ` RE : " Etienne Lorrain
2006-06-09 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-09 20:10 ` RE : " Etienne Lorrain
2006-06-10 11:56 ` Etienne Lorrain
2006-06-11 15:48 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-13 10:00 ` Etienne Lorrain
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2006-06-09 20:41 Etienne Lorrain
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[not found] ` <1149820043.5721.7.camel@forrest26.sh.intel.com>
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2006-06-09 3:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 4:51 ` Matthew Frost
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