On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Joseph Crivello <[email protected]> wrote: > If someone successfully attacks the firmware on any of your network cards, > you are screwed no matter what. Any modern network card is going to have the > ability to issue DMAs and can easily root your entire system. >
(Somewhat of a rhetorical question, but ...) How hard would it be to design and assemble one's own NIC, and use said design to construct one's own switch? (I daydream too much. Right now I'm daydreaming of a switch-on-a-card. It's been a while since I've seen such things advertised, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places nowadays.) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html
