From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 23:24:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB29B15008; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E8E2B1C19; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41093817; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:28:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Nick Hibma Cc: Matthew Dillon , Greg Black , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , KATO Takenori , bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway, > independent of whether you can go into DDB to do things. You can reboot, > boot a floppy. Yes you can do something about those things, but only to > a limited extent. Not without someone noticing in a big way. DDB is a silent attack. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message