> On Wed, 25.03.2009 at 10:05:13 -0600, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The operating systems are not vulnerable. > > > > The *machines* are. > > this begs the question: Which machines are NOT vulnerable?
PC's with real roms. Hahaha. > > There really is absolutely nothing we can do about it. > > I'd say that, at least for running machines, some precautionary > measures should be possible to take to thwart hackers that try to rob > your machine from under your fingertips. > > Eg. a driver that wipes sensitive kernel memory areas after forcefully > halting most tasks and doing a basic flushing of disk buffers... That won't help.
