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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:28:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909070127550.31482-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GS4.4.10.9909070811400.5634-100000@elect8>

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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:

> Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway,
> independent of whether you can go into DDB to do things. You can reboot,
> boot a floppy. Yes you can do something about those things, but only to
> a limited extent.

Not without someone noticing in a big way. DDB is a silent attack.

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