Risks of device naming
Posted Aug 17, 2008 20:14 UTC (Sun) by
dark (
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In reply to:
Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer by chsnyder
Parent article:
Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer
I think it's still a security problem. You might have stuck in a USB stick
in order to transfer data from it, and forgotten to take it out before
rebooting. If that USB stick has a boot-time virus then you lose your
system, even though it was never your intent to run any code from it.
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