Integrity checking NANOBSD images

[R. B. Riddick]

--- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> Arming a trojan to just do 'sleep 145 ; echo "sha256 = 0248482..."'
> when you thing you're running sha256 would be trivia.
> 
But what if the trojan copies its files to the RAM disc and waits for this
sha256 binary showing up? And then, when it is there, it removes its changes on
the hard disc  (those changes certainly must be in unused (formerly zeroed)
areas of the hard disc or in the (zeroed) end of certain shell scripts... Or do
I miss something?

Wasn't is usual some years ago to switch the boot disc hardware to "read only"
mode? I dont know how to do that, but my source seemed to be trustworthy
(although I never saw him - I just heard his voice...)... ;-))

A switch like on those 1.44'' floppy discs would be good...
But then software/OS updates would require physical access to the box...

-Arne


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