On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:26:05 +0200, Lars Nood+*n wrote:

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>David Vasek wrote:
>> What would be firewire good for?
>
>Data transfer such as for full backups or cloning or audio/video.
>Haven't tested it yet on OpenBSD, I still have USB-only / ethernet-base
>storage for those systems.  Subjectively, I find FW to be much faster
>than USB2 on my hardware using OS X and Ubuntu.
>

And you are aware of how insecure firewire is, I hope? With physical
access admittedly but it does DMA transfers without talking to the OS
etc.

See http://www.ruxcon.org.au/files/2006/firewire_attacks.pdf
I saw the demo and heard the talk that is not on the slides .... Scary!


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