Re: the end is nigh, smm exploit, rootkits, etc. all that fun

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> This is the scariest, stealthiest, and most dangerous rootkit I've
> seen come around since the legendary Blue Pill [...]
> This is serious and represents a massive new security threat for us all.

Well, all who insist on using CPUs with that sort of
bug-waiting-to-happen in them.

I'm glad to see this, though; it means that legitimate users of such
CPUs can access a layer of their hardware that it sounds as though they
mostly haven't been able to up to now.  (I didn't know this "system
management mode" even existed before this.)

I wish I had the leisure to sit down and figure out enough of this to
make a conventional OS run using that as its privileged mode, or at
least hook into it - using this bug if necessary.

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