>>Roger, you should note that Adam's "Hit by a Bus" paper includes information about how Linux users can load their OS' Firewire driver in a way that should disallow physical memory DMA access, and close this attack vector. What are the implications for firewire device compatibility of doing this? Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larry.seltzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx