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Re: Positive uses for rootkits
From: Big Woz <angrybob () HAVOC GTF ORG>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:14:47 -0500
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:00:30PM -0500, The Attitude Adjuster wrote:
OTOH, if the operating system were designed such that there was no avenue for arbitary code to ever be executed as "kernel mode", it would be a "winnable" game. What types (if any) of x86-based operating systems are there that are designed in this manner? I'm showing my ignorance here in not being able to articulate the formal name of this type of design.
I think that plan-9 is what you're looking for.... <smile> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ Though, it's not really a practical OS yet. --adam
Current thread:
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits, (continued)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Cedric Blancher (Mar 23)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Jason Nicholls (Mar 23)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Jonathan James (Mar 25)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Dick Visser (Mar 25)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Ron DuFresne (Mar 25)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Daniel R. Warner (Mar 25)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits -> off-topic: booting tricks. Alex Schütz (Mar 27)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits -> off-topic: booting tricks. ze Snark (Mar 28)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Dick Visser (Mar 25)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits The Attitude Adjuster (Mar 25)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Ben Ford (Mar 28)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Big Woz (Mar 28)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Renee Teunissen (Mar 26)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Dick Visser (Mar 26)
- The use of immunix Renee Teunissen (Mar 26)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Ben Ford (Mar 27)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Martin 'Goran' Moravec (Mar 28)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Kev (Mar 28)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Ryan Permeh (Mar 29)
- Kernel-level security (was Re: Positive uses for rootkits) Craig Boston (Mar 29)
- Re: Positive uses for rootkits Gregor Binder (Mar 29)