Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:56:52 -0500 |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:32:44 EST, Kyle Moffett said:
> and X when sleeping? Don't you *dare* say "somebody could attach a > hardware debugger and read your data out of RAM", because I just > don't see that happening in any reasonable situation, there are too > many obstacles to doing that with a _laptop_, the first of which is > just that it's impossible to take the damn thing apart when it's on > without disconnecting massive amounts of critical wiring.
No need to take anything apart if that laptop has a FireWire port on the outside. See Quinn's Firestarter that won best hack at MacHack 2002.
http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/Hacks.html#FireStarter
No need to crack the case at all. And it isn't a Mac-only issue - it's the way FireWire works. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |