[GTALUG] DMA kernel attacks

[Russell Reiter]

On Mar 17, 2017 4:02 PM, "Jason Shaw via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

Can we keep personal opinions and insults off the list?


I just asked Lennart to lay off the nastyness and be a nice boy.

So to answer your question. As soon as Lennart realizes that it is abusive
to snip in the way he does and stops pissing all over my posts.

Thanks for speaking up though. Its nice to know that people like yourself
care.


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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