{"id":921,"date":"2004-11-13T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=921"},"modified":"2004-11-13T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T15:28:22","slug":"securing-firewire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/13\/securing-firewire\/","title":{"rendered":"Securing FireWire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.com\/macosx\/securingFirewire\">Jonathan Rentzsch<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.com\/macosx\/securingFirewire\">\r\nThe idea is simple: FireWire provides direct memory access. So I can plug in my PowerBook into an Xserve, and arbitrarily read and write to all of the Xserve&rsquo;s RAM, sans any logical protection.&hellip;It took a couple of years, but the security community community eventually made this a little more high-profile. Their hook, of course, was the iPod. &ldquo;Use an iPod to 0wn an Xserve&rdquo; the cry went. Everything&rsquo;s sexier if you can tie it to the iPod.\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Rentzsch: The idea is simple: FireWire provides direct memory access. So I can plug in my PowerBook into an Xserve, and arbitrarily read and write to all of the Xserve&rsquo;s RAM, sans any logical protection.&hellip;It took a couple of years, but the security community community eventually made this a little more high-profile. Their hook, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}