Re: Malicious devices & vulnerabilties

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Kurt Seifried:

> Firewire has DMA. 
>
> http://cansecwest.com/core05/2005-firewire-cansecwest.swf
>
> eSATA - also does DMA.
>
> Thunderbolt also does DMA. 
>
> In other words a lot of the newer/higher end interfaces all do DMA
> which is ... a problem.

Gigabit Ethernet adapters also do DMA.  Is it really the case that the
(e)SATA implementation is as problematic as IEEE 1394?  I don't think
SATA exposes the DMA functionality over the wire.