Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:08:27 +0000 (UTC) From: dfeustel@mindspring.com To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and User Security Message-ID: <20080612010828.046618FC13@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <DB7E0B8F-F956-4F1D-867F-C1889CCEDAF1@goldmark.org>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:45:51PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:17 PM, dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote: > >> A relatively new security threat known as 'The Blue Pill', based upon >> hardware, is a class of virtual rootkits that can silently take over >> Intel and AMD systems. A good site to visit to learn about these virtual >> rootkits is http://invisiblethings.org/index.html. > > That is simple (in concept) yet absolutely brilliant! I'm sure that people > much smarter that I am have thought about these things more carefully than > I have, but I'm not convinced that a blue pill would be completely > undetectable. Check out also http://bluepillproject.org/
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