FC6 and cdburning

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:19:09PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Compromising firmware of one device on IDE bus = at least
> compromising both master and slave.

You should assume host compromise because patched firmware can fiddle with
things like setuid bits. Actually you should assume that you'll never use
the device again and have to bin it. For most universities and many other
environments thats probably worst case.