From: "Mark McIntyre" <markmcintyre@TROUSERSspamcop.net>

| David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "Mark McIntyre" <markmcintyre@TROUSERSspamcop.net>


>> | Course it does. You can image the HDD, you can install hardware that
>> | intercepts the decrypted stream en route between disk and memory, you
>> | can put in a modded CMOS or BIOS that includes a builtin keylogger or
>> | data logger thats part of the firmware etc etc etc.

>> | If you have access to the box for long enough, its yours.

>> Now your making things up...

| Ya reckon?

>> "put in a modded CMOS or BIOS that includes a builtin keylogger "

| PC BIOSes are on EEPROMS. Booting the pc from a CD and running a custom
| BIOS upgrade is far from beyond the bounds of possibility.

| People hack the BIOS for CD and DVD drives all the time to add features
| and remove region settings. A quick google search shows that numerous
| people have hacked their PC bios to enable features that the mobo
| provider decided weren't for use.

I won't change my statement. The BIOS is very low level. Keyloggers and password stealers
are very high level. Compare to the OSI model.
Whose motherboard ?
What BIOS ?
What chip-set ?
What EPROM chip ?

This is all very Tom Clancy but not real world.

--
Dave
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