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to: Robert Comer
from: mike
date: 2007-02-26 18:23:18
subject: Re: Microsoft Say Don`t Buy Vista

From: mike 

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:32:33 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> How hard would it be for a hacker to reprogram the VM emulated drivers so
>> that Vista thought it had a secure path to HD capable hardware?
>
>Impossible.  They would have to write their own VM software, not using any
>of the current products, and it would have to be very hardware specific plus
>have some driver hacks on the host to allow it.


Doesn't sound impossible, just somewhat difficult.

 /m

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