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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:03:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot blocks for serial console ...
Message-ID:  <199901041703.MAA08597@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990104090045.53477C-100000@eccles.salk.edu>
References:  <199901041655.LAA08566@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990104090045.53477C-100000@eccles.salk.edu>

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<<On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:01:34 -0800 (PST), Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> said:

>> Not at all.   Ever heard of a padlock?

> Well, then, there's your solution!

No, because it still doesn't prevent someone from walking up to the
machine and telling it to boot something it shouldn't.

What we're trying to achieve is an environment where the worst thing
someone could do is cause the machine to reboot.

-GAWollman

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