A Debian Developer has a good set of articles[1] on this vulnerability. It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire.
Time to whip out the epoxy, I reckon.
[1]: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
Time to whip out the epoxy, I reckon.
[1]: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
Not really. Note that LightPeak/Thunderbolt has the exact same issue. I believe it can be mitigated by the right IOMMU implementation (if the OS takes advantage of the feature).