Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > ...Windows would not do this. It would only open up access to devices
that it thought needed DMA. This is why Metlstorm had to make his Linux
machine behave like an iPod to fool Windows into spreading it's legs.

So the iPod software opens up the whole address space? I don't get it.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

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