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originally posted by: admirethedistance
a reply to: Bedlam
Ooh, I like that. You said it was a one-off for a specific purpose...Out of curiosity, can you elaborate a bit on what sort of purpose that would have been? Was it meant to store data and be retrieved, or to simply run code on the target machine? If you can't (or won't) go into any more detail, I understand, given the nature of such things.
originally posted by: Bedlam
I'd have to say, you really don't want a 1394 port operational on anything you would like to remain secure.
originally posted by: admirethedistance
Even a $40 consumer USB rubber ducky, with the right code, can be surprisingly capable in terms of "security evaluation" on specialized, hardened (and proprietary) systems.