Blue Pill Myth Debunked

njyoder writes "As previously posted about, Joanna Rutkowska claimed to have discovered an allegedly undetectable vulnerability in Vista that takes advantage of AMD cpu's virtualization capabilities. a virtualization professional (Anthony Liguori of the Xen project) has now voiced his opinion to state this is bunkum. There are two parts two this — the ability to take over the machine and seamlessly drop the OS into a VM (which is very difficult, but possible) and the ability to have windows run in the VM undetectably (which is impossible). In fact, Rutkowska's prototype is VERY detectable. This is unfortunate mistake that people make when they jump to conclusions based on what is unfounded speculation and that includes the assumption that this would somehow be Vista specific, if it worked (noting that Vista doesn't run with administrator privileges by default)."

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Anthony Liguori: I've been working on the Xen project for approximately 2 years. Like most Xen hackers, I do a little bit of everything. I'm on an extended vacation right now but normally I'm fortunate enough to be a full time Xen hacker.

Read: Anthony Liguori: I've been working on the Xen project for approximately 2 years. Like most Xen hackers, I have no job security. I'm am taking of any project but this article hopefully secures my job.

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