> Just seeing the words "remote factory diagnostic mechanism" makes me > cringe...
Yeah, and this is exactly why. But, also, Because networking cards have direct access to the computer's memory, that's an indication you're using a busted architecture - and this is why. Sane machines have an MMU between the bus and main memory. The VAX did this back in the '70s and '80s; the SPARC did it in at least some of its incarnations. Apparently computer designers are another group that doesn't learn from history (not that that's a *surprise*, exactly, but it's certainly disappointing). More reasons - as if we needed them - to avoid running peecees. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
