Selected Excerpts: "PCI-to-PCI transfers are not marshalled by the OS o PCI-to-PCI between the NIC and the GPU" [...] "a PCI card has DMA over the whole RAM

Selected Excerpts: "PCI-to-PCI transfers are not marshalled by the OS o PCI-to-PCI between the NIC and the GPU" [...] "a PCI card has DMA over the whole RAM o we can play in memory and the OS shall never know" [...] References "Broadcom firmware development kit: http://www.broadcom.com/products/communications_processors_downloads.php http://www.broadcom.com/products/communications_processors_d... [Not currently online, use Wayback Machine or Google keyword search] Papers by John Heasman (ACPI, BIOS and PCI rootkits): http://www.nextgenss.com/research/papers/ http://www.nextgenss.com/research/papers/ [Not currently online, use Wayback Machine or Google keyword search] Implementing_And_Detecting_A_PCI_Rootkit.pdf Network Interface Firmware Back Door with Tigon2, eEye Industry Newsletter, 25th April 2007, http://www.eeye.com/html/resources/newsletters/vice/VI20070425.html http://www.eeye.com/html/resources/newsletters/vice/VI200704... [Not currently online, use Wayback Machine or Google keyword search] A. Singh, Mac OS X Internals, Addison-Wesley, 2006, http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter4/efiprogramming/ http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter4/efiprogramming/ Rowan Atkinson, “Blackadder”, BBC TV series." Author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cynicalsecurity https://twitter.com/cynicalsecurity (My thoughts: Future Hardware/OS Designers should seriously think about these and related issues...)