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.
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