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On 6/30/06, Mark <kernowyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 30 June 2006 09:51, Tom Potts wrote: > > http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32727 > > This is quite incredible! Blows any DRM out of the water! > > Tom the I wish I'd though of that! > > More disturbingly..... > from the end of the article - > > "More on her Bog here" > > Hmmmmm..... > > Mark I are we own all ur base until reset belong to us! I would reason that the malware goes away after a restart after reading from the links below. After reading her blog I ended up realizing the words "Pacifica" and "design flaw" kept cropping up. That is in regards to AMDs new virtualization technology that is supposed to be hard-coded in to their CPUs. More on that here: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~104860,00.html If you were to download and glaze over the I/O Virtualization Specification here: http://developer.amd.com/documentation.aspx You would come across this snippet below: The IOMMU is designed to support three main usage models: - Direct user process access to a single device like a graphics controller, - Direct virtual machine guest access to a collection of devices that have been dedicated to that guest, and - A single non-virtualized OS using the IOMMU to enforce device to system memory access controls. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html