Re: [SLUG] Re: Gmail Accounts

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 13:11:57 EDT


> On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:44:41 -0400, Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:21 -0400, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
> >
> > > Well you know there is a gmail filesystem ;). So I guess a initrd and
> > > a lot of time on your hands. My hat is off to who ever could pull
> > > that off.
> >
> > I could see someone maliciously setting up a bunch of these gmail
> > residing operating systems (anonymously) and then have each send out a
> > few emails at a time all coordinated to different destinations at the
> > same time. It would be like a clustered spamming bitorrent...or
> > something...

Probably can't boot unless the bootloader supports the filesystem enough to
read a kernel from it. Maybe. Never used an initrd.

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