Re: Versioning file system

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jun 18 2007 - 13:47:06 EST


Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago,
> the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system
> crackers to hide trojan horse code and rootkits so that system
> administrators couldn't find them. :-)
>

But... that's an essential feature in Windows! Otherwise, how would
Microsoft produce a RKDK (Rootkit development kit) to sell to Sony?

-hpa
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