Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764332AbXFRRrG (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:47:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753537AbXFRRqy (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:46:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:52725 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326AbXFRRqx (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:46:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4676C4D8.1030404@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:46:00 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso , alan , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <20070616145337.GA13391@lazybastard.org> <20070618094524.GF5181@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070618140143.GD30244@thunk.org> <20070618172955.GB24189@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20070618172955.GB24189@thunk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 17 Theodore Tso wrote: > > As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, > the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system > crackers to hide trojan horse code and rootkits so that system > administrators couldn't find them. :-) > But... that's an essential feature in Windows! Otherwise, how would Microsoft produce a RKDK (Rootkit development kit) to sell to Sony? -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/