This is scary stuff!
A motherboard-resident hypervisor will have 100% access to everything you do on your PC. It's the perfect place for Dell to insert DRM, email-scanners, keystroke loggers, etc.
Every data packet that goes into or out of your O/S has to travel through the hypervisor layer.
Until now, spyware had to go into your O/S. Easy on Windows, not so easy on Linux & Apple. But spyware can be easily embedded in a hypervisor, where all I/O is passing through. It can easily be extended by Dell. Perhaps at the request of an OEM (NSA for instance;-). I work for a company that would dearly love to have an undetectable covert channel to monitor every keystroke, file-transfer, network packet, mouse-click, web-access, etc.
Every registered sex-offender will be given a free Dell desktop for his getting-out-of-jail gift.:-*
In the "Management" section, hover over their CEO: John Thompson.
- Symantec's CEO is John "W." Thompson, NOT John "M." Thompson - The picture of John "W." Thompson shows that he is a 63-year old WHITE man.
John "W." Thompson is actually one of the few BLACK CEO's in High Tech. A simple Google search proves that. Even if it wasn't a well-known fact.
Something tells me they're hiring Indian data entry "experts" to populate these pages. Or maybe Google has a gripe against Symantec...
If the rest of the financial info in Google Finance is manually entered, I'm certainly not going to rely on it. Unlike the Web, financial data changes very fast.
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This is scary stuff! A motherboard-resident hypervisor will have 100% access to everything you do on your PC. It's the perfect place for Dell to insert DRM, email-scanners, keystroke loggers, etc. Every data packet that goes into or out of your O/S has to travel through the hypervisor layer. Until now, spyware had to go into your O/S. Easy on Windows, not so easy on Linux & Apple. But spyware can be easily embedded in a hypervisor, where all I/O is passing through. It can easily be extended by Dell. Perhaps at the request of an OEM (NSA for instance ;-). I work for a company that would dearly love to have an undetectable covert channel to monitor every keystroke, file-transfer, network packet, mouse-click, web-access, etc.
Every registered sex-offender will be given a free Dell desktop for his getting-out-of-jail gift. :-*
Google is running out of ways to leverage their search engine.
Check out the detailed info on SYMC: http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=546053
In the "Management" section, hover over their CEO: John Thompson.
- Symantec's CEO is John "W." Thompson, NOT John "M." Thompson
- The picture of John "W." Thompson shows that he is a 63-year old WHITE man.
John "W." Thompson is actually one of the few BLACK CEO's in High Tech. A simple Google search proves that. Even if it wasn't a well-known fact.
Something tells me they're hiring Indian data entry "experts" to populate these pages. Or maybe Google has a gripe against Symantec...
If the rest of the financial info in Google Finance is manually entered, I'm certainly not going to rely on it. Unlike the Web, financial data changes very fast.