Re: Helper Tool on FireWire

• Subject: Re: Helper Tool on FireWire
• From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:41:51 +0100
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On 25 Jun 2006, at 13:55, "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> Of course. Otherwise, I could take a FireWire drive, hook it up to my
> Mac, put a tool on it, make it setuid root, then connect my drive to
> your Mac and boom! Instance root access.

Well, if you near enough to my machine to insert a FireWire cable,
then you are also able to insert a boot-CD.

Yes, but you can disable booting from external devices using firmware
passwords. In a school lab, you might want students to be able to
connect their iPods but not be able to root the machine without
arousing some suspicion.

Anyway, this is heading off-topic ;-)

-- Finlay
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