, 2007-04-24
Federico Biancuzzi interviews Nitin and Vipin Kumar, authors of VBootkit, a rootkit that is able to load from Windows Vista boot-sectors. They discuss the "features" of their code, the support of the various versions of Vista, the possibility to place it inside the BIOS (it needs around 1500 bytes), and the chance to use it to bypass Vista's product activation or avoid DRM.
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life is not easy for anyone
2007-04-25
oh really? (2 replies)
oh really? (2 replies)
Think about some of the posibilities:
Why would someone trust Information Rights Management (IRM), a.k.a. DRM for Office?
Now with the extended powers of TPM/DRM you machine isn't you own anymore. What your machine can and cannot do can be governed by others.
There are many things Which even an Administrator account don't have access in Vista(Administrator cannot disable the code-signing requirement).
Tools like this help to retain control back to our machine
Cheers for such researchers !!!!
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