On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Chris Suter <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, but someone who has physical access to the machine can do > whatever they like. They could open the box and probe the memory > directly somehow or add a malicious bit of software to get the details > later.
My favorite attack involves using a special firewire device to initiate DMA transfers to read memory. Setting a firmware password prevents this on OS X. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
