Re: Good cables are better
>I wonder why four people down-voted, there's nothing inaccurate about saying the DMA of firewire is a huge security risk.
The attacker will need physical access to your machine to plug in a rogue FW device. In the environments in whih FireWire is used, any thief will just make off with your external HDDs or expensive video camera before they start faffing around with a FireWire-based attack.
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