Joanna Rutkowska Discusses VM Rootkits

Unwanted Software writes "There's an interesting interview on eWeek with Joanna Rutkowska, the stealth malware researcher who created 'Blue Pill' VM rootkit and planted an unsigned driver on Windows Vista, bypassing the new device driver signing policy. She roundly dismisses the quality of existing anti-virus/anti-rootkit products and makes the argument that the world is not ready for VM technology. From the article: 'Hardware virtualization, as recently introduced by Intel and AMD, is very powerful technology. It's my personal opinion that this technology has been introduced a little bit too early, before the major operating system vendors were able to redesign their systems so that they could make a conscious use of this technology, hopefully preventing its abuse.'"

Comments

Re:I'd hit it like the fist from an angry god!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I'd root her box, all right. Penetrate her firewall. Invade her deep logic. Assert administrative privileges and disable all virus protection. Reconfigure her RAID array with a dedicated controller. Put new batteries in her UPS. ... Wait, what were we talking about?

Re:I'd hit it like the fist from an angry god!

[fbjon]

Assert administrative privileges and disable all virus protection.

Now that is just vile.

I almost feel like posting a lengthy rant on the immaturity of the average slashdotter, and the repellent factor it has towards women in the industry, like has been discussed before here. This post would be the poster child. But...

.. I laughed too. Damn you, hypocrisy!

Re:I speak for hundreds of geeks...

[Jugalator]

Here she's sitting between two other geeks that looks to be slightly confused by the situation:
http://www.prabu.us/wp-content/Fabio_Joanna_prabu_ Small.jpg

Please don't confuse the leftmost man named Fabio there with the model of the same name.

Her name should be

[woodengod]

Joanna ROOTkowska