From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors
Date: 30 Jul 2002 21:08:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028059705.7974.32.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020729222434.GB15219@elf.ucw.cz>
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:24, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Given an afternoon someone competent can easily write a worm that
> > destroys every scsi hard disk, almost every PC bios, your IDE firmware,
> > some laptop batteries some USB devices and far more.
>
> Every scsi harddisk? I do not think *all* of them have upgradable
> firmware.
>
> Every PC bios? I believe many manufacturers are clever enough to
> require jumper.
>
> If hardware is so crappy it is possible to kill it ... well ... I
> believe it is at least bugtraq topic.
Pretty much all of them do. They often put the firmware on the disk
platter nowdays rather than on flash.
As to PC BIOSes - a few boards have jumpers, even fewer use them.
Things are improving with the use of crypto in firmware for drives
(addmitedly mostly to stop people patching the firmware to remove DVD
region protection and other crap folks have been sneaking in) and black
box protection for the bios flash - where a password must be written to
write only registers (with another write only register set to configure
a new password or turn on flash write once the old password is written
to enable)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-19 14:06 [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors Albert Cranford
2002-07-20 2:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 1:04 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-20 3:33 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-07-20 4:08 ` Kelledin
2002-07-20 4:11 ` Gabor Kerenyi
2002-07-20 4:14 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-20 4:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-20 20:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-26 10:46 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-26 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-26 13:29 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 16:46 ` Florian Weimer
2002-07-29 22:24 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-30 20:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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