[Lazarus] Embarcadero vs Lazarus/FPC (Oracle vs Google)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> In the last c't magazine I found an side-cut on the German 
> "Bundestrojaner", a spy software developed for the secret service:
> 
> "Since the AV software is booted from a clean CD, and has full control 
> over the machine, there is no disk space where a rootkit or other 
> spyware could hide itself."

Never a safe assumption: a rootkit can hide itself in Flash, and in 
particular can hide itself in the "hidden" System Management Mode BIOS 
space (Phrack 65).

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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