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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Paonia Ezrine <paonia@home.welcomehome.org>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: read only
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 09:22:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32036.957514946@devel2.axiom.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200005041741.NAA23266@home.welcomehome.org>


paonia@home.welcomehome.org said:
> I am not sure how I would update the image then. And also garentee
> that noone else can. 

Presumably, when you wanted to update the image, you'd boot a different 
kernel - one which has full read/write support. You can't _guarantee_ that 
your attacker won't reboot the system onto the same kernel, but it's 
certainly far less likely, and far more detectable.

--
dwmw2




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  reply	other threads:[~2000-05-05  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-03 22:21 read only Paonia Ezrine
2000-05-04  8:00 ` David Woodhouse
2000-05-04 17:41   ` Paonia Ezrine
2000-05-05  8:22     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-05-05  8:24     ` Trevor Woolven
2000-05-05  9:20       ` David Woodhouse
2000-05-07 10:38 ` Dvir Oren

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