On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 18:44:48 +0100, Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:36:58 +0100, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > > I have read some articles about the Cold Boot Attacks and I am > > wondering whether my Fedora box is protected against such kinds of > > attack, at least to some extent. > > If you have physical access to the box there is no security left. Attacked > can install there a trojan to catch+store boot password, install backdoor into > the booted kernel, use SMM (System Management Hook) etc. Attacker can also > solder in a sniffer of memory accesses. Other variants also exist. Having the laptop stolen, modified, put back and then stolen again later, may not be a threat he is concerned about. His concern seems to be that shutting the machine down may not be good enough to protect against the laptop simply being stolen. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
