[Arm-netbook] ARM's OOB para-virtualization & FreeZone in A10?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Thu Jul 5 12:22:23 BST 2012


On 07/05/2012 11:52 AM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> tor 2012-07-05 klockan 09:57 +0000 skrev nil:
>
>> Your fear is (mostly) unnecessary. Also, coreboot?
>> (also, not all laptops have TPMs; and they're even less useful to an attacker
>> than hardware virtualization.)
>
> Actually the TPM is very useful for you to protect from attacks. With
> the TPM you can lock down the hardware to only accept you, and you can
> make sure any tampering with your device gets noticed by you.
>
>>> Thereby, a hacker can hack into the local LAN to hack into a netbook's
>>> AMD's virtualization:
>> Doesn't follow.
>
> The theory goes as
>
> 1. LAN gets hacked

You have already lost at this point.

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Gordan



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