On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:07:28PM +0200, Quux wrote: > there is also the issue, that unless BIOS disables the feature, a virus > can lock up a modern hard drive for good at run time. this was reported > on c't security some time ago.
Hah. :p Well, not for good? It wouldn't be too difficult to make a brute force thingy that tests a few passwords then resets power, then continues. I don't believe the drive ever locks up completely, regardless of the number of tries. > There were no known legacy BIOSes aware of this vulnerability at > the time (~2005). --Q LB 1 - legacy 0 //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios