On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:26:05 +0200, Lars Nood+*n wrote: >David Vasek wrote: >> What would be firewire good for? > >Data transfer such as for full backups or cloning or audio/video. >Haven't tested it yet on OpenBSD, I still have USB-only / ethernet-base >storage for those systems. Subjectively, I find FW to be much faster >than USB2 on my hardware using OS X and Ubuntu. >
And you are aware of how insecure firewire is, I hope? With physical access admittedly but it does DMA transfers without talking to the OS etc. See http://www.ruxcon.org.au/files/2006/firewire_attacks.pdf I saw the demo and heard the talk that is not on the slides .... Scary! *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
