Re: SecurityFocus Article

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 14:34 +0000, Ed White wrote:
> The big problem is that the attack is possible thanks to the way X
> Windows is designed

Where did you get that idea.

What it essentially says is "if you can hack the machine enough to get
the ability to issue raw i/o accesses you can get any other power you
want". Thats always been true. Using SMM to do this seems awfully hard
work.

Alan

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