> Most likely for the off-the-street person, booting with Knoppix and > running 'cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda' would have been enough of a > barrier. You'd only have to let the command run for a second or so. > Of course, the advantage of the hole is that it is immediately > apparent that the drive just wont work. And it only costs the price > of a drill bit and a drill, which is probably cheaper than training > people how to use Knoppix.
Actually, the /dev/zero method wouldn't work against dedicated hardware-level hackers. Darik's Boot 'n' Nuke would: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
