Maarten de Vries wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 23:29, Leonid Isaev <leonid.is...@jila.colorado.edu> > wrote: > >> >> Also, how can you brick a machine by simply zeroing the harddrive? >> >> > You can't (well, someone can probably think of a contrived situation where > you could, there's always someone, but generally speaking). The problem is > with removing certain UEFI variables in buggy UEFI implementations (which > are all too common). But in this case (with buggy UEFI implementation) a > simple rm -rf of the wrong directory can brick your motherboard. > > -- Maarten
Interesting sidenote: In Android, all the system-level stuff is segregated to /system, which is mounted as ro by default. This is just another layer of security. --Kyle
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