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A Tool Physically Hacks Windows (darkreading.com)
2 points by gongfudoi on March 15, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


From the article: When you think of Firewire, you really should just think of a cable coming directly out of your system's DRAM banks. That's basically all Firewire is.

Shouldn't DMA transfer only be initiated from inside a host? That's really scary.




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