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Comment Re: BRIX (Score 1) 49

by Alex_Ionescu on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:33AM (#54176925) Attached to: Gigabyte Firmware Bugs Allow the Installation of BIOS/UEFI Ransomware

Sorry, SecureBoot is implemented in the very firmware you can own when WP is busted... so Windows will happily believe all is good. That's the point of these types of vulnerabilities.

The TPM point would be valid if you actually manually configured which PCRs will cause BitLocker and remote attestation to fail. By default the firmware ones are NOT setup this way. Even if they were, it the attacker knew the expected measurements (from the original firmware), TPM has no signing on measurements and therefore you could fake the old numbers by self measuring.

George Washington Racks Up 220 Years of Late Fees At Library 146

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 19, 2010 @01:15PM from the at-least-he-read dept.

Everyone knows that George Washington couldn't tell a lie. What you probably didn't know is that he couldn't return a library book on time. From the article: "New York City's oldest library says one of its ledgers shows that the president has racked up 220 years' worth of late fees on two books he borrowed, but never returned. One of the books was the 'Law of Nations,' which deals with international relations. The other was a volume of debates from Britain's House of Commons. Both books were due on Nov. 2, 1789."

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 — Gaming On Six Panels 111

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @06:29AM from the for-the-truly-dedicated dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD's 6-output Radeon has been seen in action at a number of events, but today the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is being officially launched. HotHardware paired the card up with six 22" Dell LCD panels in a 3x2 configuration — with a max resolution of 5760x2160 — and ran it through a number of popular titles including Dirt 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis. For specialized, high-end graphics cards like this, the market potential may be relatively small. If, however, the idea of multi-monitor gaming is appealing to you and you've got the means to score one of these cards (along with multiple displays), you won't be disappointed." Reader Vigile adds a different analysis of the card's six-monitor gaming: "PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision while RTS and racing games like StarCraft 2 and DiRT 2 were spectacular."

Comment Re:USB, people ... USB (Score 1) 656

by Alex_Ionescu on Saturday October 03, 2009 @05:03PM (#29630119) Attached to: Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync

Please read the letter USBIF wrote to Palm -- they *expressly* stated that usage of the VID/PID in this manner is a supported and expected function of the USB standard. They are using their VID/PID exactly in the way it was intended for.

Comment Re:Include the antidote ! (Score 1) 631

by Alex_Ionescu on Thursday July 02, 2009 @04:34PM (#28563861) Attached to: FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers

Erm, Acetaminophen is not a "Brand name", it is called a "Common name" or "Generic name". And guess what, so is Paracetamol, the European "Common name". A "brand name" is Parocet or Tylenol.

So I guess Europeans have a little bit more trouble differentiating brand names from common names, or were you just trying to get everyone to switch over to the European way of naming things?

The drug name is "N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide", FYI.

Comment More on the Shim Database... (Score 1) 316

by Alex_Ionescu on Friday May 22, 2009 @05:14PM (#28059365) Attached to: MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition

A bit of a shameless plug, but if you'd like more information on these "shims", I've started a series of articles on the technology (still hoping to complete it shortly) on my blog at http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=39. FYI, there's over 8000 of them in Windows today, and each time you launch an app, these checks are made.

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