RE: [cobalt-security] Re: boot/mount a raq4 drive in non-cobalt hardware?

["Eric Frisch" <ericf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Eric Frisch writes:
>
> > <snip> I would not say it is totally impossible if
> > one has a LOT time to waste with various loader
> > scenarios using floppies and possibly a kernel rebuild.
>
> thanks for that advice, it sounds like a headache I can do without.
>
> incidentally, I am finding it hard to believe that the hacking and the
> hardware failure happening the very same evening was a
> coincidence. Have you
> ever heard of a hacker trashing hardware, while leaving the OS
> intact?

With regular PC platforms yes, with Cobalt's no . . .

> The
> machine has symptoms of a failed motherboard or CPU, different
> from the disk
> problems we have had in the past with this raq4r. Is it possible s/he
> flashed the bios...?

Yes, it would be extremely simple to do.  I won't bother explaining here for
the benefit of evil morons that would do such a thing.

>
> many thanks,
> Julian
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