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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
 There is a new problem with dual booting, firewire. Microsoft was notified in 2006 about a way to take complete control over a Windows machine if you attached a Linux machine to it via firewire. How hard is it? It is possible to neutralize a windows machine in seconds, and the program just got released to the public.
While this does require you to have access to the firewire port, if you sit down in a computer lab that dual boots, this wouldn't be a problem. Since Microsoft doesn't consider this a security risk, they aren't going to patch it. They've had two years to fix it, and they didn't. They consider it a "feature". Lab admins everywhere beware.
Read more at www.storm.net.nz.
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