Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:42:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:42:51 -0400 Received: from mail.cert.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.16.17]:10125 "EHLO Mail.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:42:50 -0400 To: martin@dalecki.de Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors References: <3D381CD1.6A0B9909@bellsouth.net> <1027130877.14314.6.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020726104640.GD279@elf.ucw.cz> <1027694678.13429.40.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3D414ECD.3050004@evision.ag> Mail-Followup-To: martin@dalecki.de, Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List From: Florian Weimer Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:46:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3D414ECD.3050004@evision.ag> (Marcin Dalecki's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:29:49 +0200") Message-ID: <871y9qxws1.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1244 Lines: 21 Marcin Dalecki writes: >> Given an afternoon someone competent can easily write a worm that >> destroys every scsi hard disk, almost every PC bios, your IDE firmware, >> some laptop batteries some USB devices and far more. >> The "you cant break the computer" thing is simply not true for almost >> any PC class device. I wouldn't pick on IBM here. > > And it would be after all a bit hard to get an exponential propagation > curve, becouse the incubator is killing himself in this case :-). In practice, you don't see exponential growth, but logistic growth, as it becomes more and more difficult to spot new victims. So you just have to wait with distruction until the rate at which an individual host can infect targets drops below a certain threshold or something like that. -- Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT fax +49-711-685-5898 - 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/