Very true. It seems like a simple thing to loudly inform the user that a new PCI device was connected. But that would probably only help savvy people--everyone

Very true. It seems like a simple thing to loudly inform the user that a new PCI device was connected. But that would probably only help savvy people--everyone else would just click ok without reading the dialog. A real solution would be some sort of DMA whitelist provided by the OS driver.