bugtraq - Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:51:15 -0400
From: Steve Shockley <steve.shockley@...ckley.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

Stefan Kanthak wrote:
> 2. The typical user authentication won't help, we're at hardware
> level here, and no OS needs to be involved.

So, if I understand you correctly, if I boot my machine into DOS the 
memory can be read over Firewire?  Or does the machine need a Firewire 
driver loaded to be vulnerable?