4 ms·
would you risk your account by intentionally adding malware to your data sets? HDDs are passive, there is no danger in merely hooking one up. and as long as th
by cracki 17y ago
would you risk your account by intentionally adding malware to your data sets?
HDDs are passive, there is no danger in merely hooking one up. and as long as the file system drivers are solid, shoveling these bits into "buckets" (whatever these are) is safe too. you're just shoveling the bits, not looking at them.
this is about data, not executable code.
- loop 17y agoThey only support SATA and USB-2, which unlike Firewire, do not work by DMA, IIRC. I'd assume they do not support Firewire for exactly this reason: to prevent a device from reading the systems memory directly (known as pwn-by-iPod)
- tsuraan 17y agoSATA certainly does support DMA. DMA isn't a feature unique to firewire; rather, USB is (nearly) unique in that it's the one high-speed standard that doesn't support DMA.