On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:29:17AM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:59 AM, James Bottomley > <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > > > But that doesn't really help me: untrusted root is an oxymoron. > > Imagine you run windows and you've never heard of Linux. You like > that only windows kernels can boot on your box and not those mean > nasty hacked up malware kernels. Now some attacker manages to take > over your box because you clicked on that executable for young models > in skimpy bathing suits. That executable rewrote your bootloader to > launch a very small carefully crafted Linux environment. This
Rewrote bootloader on disk so that it gets executed next time? It will not run as signature will not match. Thanks Vivek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
