From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
"Acpi-linux (E-mail)" <acpi@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:37:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B421F04.305FEE03@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDDF2B@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com>
Other ACPI problems, that come with the increased potential for
malicious code:
- Much easier for NSA to snoop machine activity undetected (hello
paranoid people)
- Much easier to write worms and virii and similar
(it's much easier for someone malicious to patch an acpi table than bios
binary code.....)
--
Jeff Garzik | "I respect faith, but doubt is
Building 1024 | what gives you an education."
MandrakeSoft | -- Wilson Mizner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-03 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-03 18:54 ACPI fundamental locking problems Grover, Andrew
2001-07-03 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-03 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03 19:39 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-09 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-12 21:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-09 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-03 19:37 ` Dave Jones
2001-07-03 19:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-03 22:01 Grover, Andrew
2001-07-03 21:28 Grover, Andrew
2001-07-03 21:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-03 21:53 ` arjan
2001-07-03 17:55 Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03 19:10 ` Johannes Erdfelt
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