Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> I just saw http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2c3973%2c881243%2c00.asp
> which warns that TurboTax is apparently writing licensing info to 
> Sector 33.  The article warns that some multi-boot utilities may use 
> that space -- does NetBSD's?

NetBSD's doesn't. Its a bit of a miracle, actually -- Frank actually
fit everything for multiboot into the MBR itself. Astonishingly small
code.

However, I'll point out that writing random stuff into a random sector
is probably quite unfriendly overall -- I'm not sure that every
machine will have sector 33 cleanly available for such purposes, and
certainly it isn't safe to assume it is.

Perry