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Re: Positive uses for rootkits -> off-topic: booting tricks.
From: Alex Schütz <antitrack_legend () TELEKABEL AT>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:22:29 +0200
At 16:46 25.03.01 -0500, you wrote:
Something I like doing is leaving the kernel source there, but modify it so it is unbootable.
I guess you now know why I usually have my kernel on a write-protected bootdisk. The PC server default-boots from that disk. Many attackers are not smart enough to modify the CMOS bios boot options before rebooting. Even if they did, the boot-device is a SCSI harddisk on an SCSI controller that has no boot-bios (NCR cheapo-controller), so it might be *really* impossible to hack anything this way. And no IDE devices ! So we've found something 100% safe from remote-rebooting "a modified kernel" at least. If that ever helps? God knows :-) Anyhow, sorry for being so off-topic. Talk to you later, Alex
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