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Vesselin Bontchev (bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:

: DEBUG can access the disk only as logical sectors, so in order to
: access it on a physical level, you'll have to write a short program,
: using INT 13h - the BIOS service, used to access the disk. However,
: people who know how to do that, usually don't ask why booting from a
: floppy can bypass the hard disk protection, so I'll describe an easier

You can also use such a program to erase one's hard disk.

The only security in this case is to physically remove the floppy drives from
the system.  In my secure testbed I have such a system which is connected
to other systems via serial port only, and it polls other systems for stuff.
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