Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:32:44 EST, Kyle Moffett said:

> and X when sleeping?  Don't you *dare* say "somebody could attach a  
> hardware debugger and read your data out of RAM", because I just  
> don't see that happening in any reasonable situation, there are too  
> many obstacles to doing that with a _laptop_, the first of which is  
> just that it's impossible to take the damn thing apart when it's on  
> without disconnecting massive amounts of critical wiring.

No need to take anything apart if that laptop has a FireWire port on the
outside. See Quinn's Firestarter that won best hack at MacHack 2002.

http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/Hacks.html#FireStarter

No need to crack the case at all. And it isn't a Mac-only issue - it's the
way FireWire works.

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