[techtalk] bizarre....

Conrad Golightly acow at home.com
Mon Dec 13 20:52:04 EST 1999


Seagate Eagle hard drives have a jumper that makes them read-only; keep RPM
and the MD5 checksums of your system stuff or anything else that you could
use to investigate a break-in on one of those puppies. You simply CAN'T
modify anything when its physically write protected. =)


> Yup.  The intruder could have done any number of things, which is why I
> suggested reinstalling.  The other stuff I suggested was just to try to
> find out how it was done, so it could be prevented in the future.  Nothing
> worse than getting hacked and not knowing how...



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