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When craziness wraps around...

Rob Landley writes:

A common trick years ago was to set up your routing tables and then have PID 1 exit so the kernel paniced, because the paniced kernel would continue to route packets with _no_userspace_running_. Darn hard to hack a system like that.

This is such a ridiculously stupid idea I think it has wrapped all the way around to the point where it just grazes "genius"!

posted at: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:04 | in /humor | permalink | add comment (1 others)

Posted by RichiH at Thu Nov 27 05:09:23 2008

I don't see how this is stupid. I would not go as far as saying that the trick was common, but it did work very well.. ;)

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