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1996-09-01 - Re: Moscowchannel.com hack

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Message Hash: e628d243a64322785ac4ef524a72d058c35435056ddeb358a2f6486cf626f9fd
Message ID: <199609011722.MAA31289@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <199609011723.NAA00697@nrk.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-09-01 19:12:07 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 03:12:07 +0800

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 03:12:07 +0800
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Subject: Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
In-Reply-To: <199609011723.NAA00697@nrk.com>
Message-ID: <199609011722.MAA31289@manifold.algebra.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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David Lesher wrote:
> 
> Igor Chudov @ home sez:
> > 
> > > Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the
> > > webserver.
> > 
> > A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount another
> > directory on that node. Not a good solution.
> 
> Real hard disks such as RL02's & RK07's have WRITE DISABLE
> switches....
> 

You can't mount the whole Unix read-only, so there will always be a place
to put the hacked web page, and then mount that place over DocumentRoot.

	- Igor.

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