[GTALUG] DMA kernel attacks

[Jason Shaw]

Can we keep personal opinions and insults off the list?

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2017 3:11 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 02:53:03PM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
> > Ok to recap. You assumed you needed to turn off the computer to install
> > PCIe. You learned PCIe is hot pluggable. You assumed the card had to be
> > plugged into the target machine, you learned it did not.
>
> Well no.  I already knew PCIe could be hot plugable and also knew it
> usually is not.  expresscard on the other hand always is, I just forgot
> it existed and didn't think the device in question would work with that.
>
> Brain initially says: PCIe attack implies desktop which doesn't have
> hotplug implies this is irrelevant. :)
>
> > I was just pointing out why you made those false assumptions and then
> > wrongly designated the information as irrelevant.
> >
> > Its because I didn't explicitly describe what was so obvious in the
> video.
> >
> > I'd normally politely say my bad but in this case I think not.
>
> If I had watched the video from the start initially it might have helped.
> Unfortunately youtube helped and made the link you posted start at a
> few minutes from the end.  Youtube can be annoying at times.
>
> And yes the "over usb3" comment did give the wrong initial impression.
>
> In the end it does seem like a neat trick.
>
>
> Not as neat as your way of pissing me off by selectively editing and
> trying to look reasonable about it.
>
> Those three posts in a row make it look like you are having a nice
> reasoned conversation with yourself.
>
> However, it was me you were replying to and you snipped without form.
>
> Thats one of the oldest shitheel moves on usenet. You were probably still
> in short pants when I first noticed that some people do treat others
> contempt in that manner.
>
> Its nothing new and I wouldnt ask for you to be banned as an abuser but
> best if you just ignore my posts from now on.
>
> You will come across smarter than the past set of arguments with me have
> demonstrated.
>
> OK
>
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