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Re:Replacing a Thinkpad X60 Bootflash Chip by taiki on Thursday May 08, 2014 @04:23PM (#7717442)
why are you disabling the card bus, firewire and sd card ports?
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Re:Replacing a Thinkpad X60 Bootflash Chip by hosay123 on Thursday May 08, 2014 @04:25PM (#7717454)
At least 2 of those interfaces support DMA to host RAM.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack
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Re:Replacing a Thinkpad X60 Bootflash Chip by taiki on Thursday May 08, 2014 @04:39PM (#7717545)
D'oh. Somehow missed the fact that you were hardening the machine against attack.
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