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Re: yes, its t0rn again


From: Helmut Springer <delta () FAVEVE UNI-STUTTGART DE>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:51:11 +0100

On Sat 2001-01-06 (01:17), Aaron wrote:
pain, but it isn't sufficient to stop the kernel from being
modified after startup.  Silvio Cesare wrote a paper in Nov '98
that discusses how to do this via direct writes to /dev/*mem:

agreed.  several systems have the ability to deny even UID 0 direct
write access to memory and/or hardware.

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