nospam wrote:
In article , Floyd L. Davidson
wrote:
Any OS that cannot do that is abjectly insecure.
There's no correlation between being able to boot and run from read-only
media and security.
You are clueless.
If the boot device is an R/O device, there is no such
thing as compromising the booted OS. Think about it...
oh yes there is. you won't be able to compromise the contents of the
actual read-only drive (and who cares), but you can compromise the
*booted* *system* itself once it's up and running.
think about it.
That's not the point. The point absolutely was that you can't compromise
the booted OS. And that means that if it gets compromised after it is booted
the cure is quick and simple: reboot.
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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)