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From: Alex Nash <nash@Mcs.Net>
To: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Malicious Linux modules - be worried !]
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Matthew Thyer wrote:

> I assume FreeBSD LKMs could do this kind of thing too.

FreeBSD disallows LKM loading when kern.securelevel > 0.  Unfortunately,
it's often not practical to run with securelevel set that way.

Alex