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Agreed.  There's no point to demonstrating the many ways that a
partition table can become screwed, a filesystem can take a dump, a
hardware flaw can be taken advantage of, or worse, be exploited
unknowingly resulting in a crash, or any number of other things.

I think what would really be amusing is for a private net to be set up
and have someone crack a *real* box, not one already rooted.  Without
any crutches such as getting even a username and password.

A truly insecure box requires no user account to bring it down.  It
requires someone who can find a way into it, assuming that the SA isn't
terribly smart and also assuming that the cracker is smarter then the
person running it.

An SA that isn't proactive, will lose, quickly.

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