From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jonas Diemer <diemer@gmx.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: security issue: hard disk lock
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:09:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113577779.11116.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504111801.16647.diemer@gmx.de>
On Llu, 2005-04-11 at 17:01, Jonas Diemer wrote:
> Yes, but a new video-card or Motherboard can be easily bought (although it
> costs), but the data on a locked disk is lost forever, unless you pay for
> professional recovery (which is also a time-issue, if time critical data is
> stored on the disk). Of course, this can be solved with a good backup
> strategy...
It still causes great inconvenience I agree.
> I agree with you though, that this really isn't a kernel issue, but a BIOS
> thing. Distributors should/could provide additional security by freezing the
> security-features early during boot, until BIOS vendors do their homework.
Its really for Jeff and Bartlomiej to call but I'd certainly not be
opposed to freezing the security state in the kernel at boot by default.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-04 17:42 security issue: hard disk lock Jonas Diemer
2005-04-04 18:32 ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-04 23:00 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-05 15:41 ` Vernon Mauery
2005-04-05 17:10 ` Jonas Diemer
2005-04-04 19:26 ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-11 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-11 16:01 ` Jonas Diemer
2005-04-14 3:20 ` Mark Lord
2005-04-15 15:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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