[mdlug] [mdlug-admin] IEEE 1394a

[Jeff Hanson]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And because it is a peer-to-peer connection with DMA
> (Direct Memory Access) at the hardware level, an IEEE 1394
> port is a major security hole on any computer.

According to the Wikipedia article there are some solutions like
virtual memory mapping:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394a#Security_issues

Interesting note on how FreeBSD supports using a debugger with it to
analyze a crashed system.