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The quest for ring 0
Federico Biancuzzi, 2006-05-10

Federico Biancuzzi interviews French researcher Loïc Duflot to learn about the System Management Mode attack, how to mitigate it, what hardware is vulnerable, and why we should be concerned with recent X Server bugs.

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The quest for ring 0 2006-05-26
Drew Scott Daniels
From ReactOS's Developer FAQ http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Developer_FAQ

* Q Why did Microsoft put the GUI in Ring 0?
* A Because this gives quite an advantage in speed. Contrary to a GUI-server, which will run in its own process, there are no context changes necessary when per...

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