On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:19:08 -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: > As for Firewire, it was supported at one point >and then taken out. I can't remember why and I don't care enough to >search the archives.
I don't know why for certain either but it is one of the most insecure connections that is easily physically accessible on any PC/Mac. That would be enough for me. With no intervention by the CPU it can DMA access lots of RAM and you can't (IIRC) set the lower bound to be above the lowest page. I've seen a demo with a sneaky quick connection sucking out the keyboard buffer of a PC. *** 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/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
