Re: [Full-disclosure] Brilliant attack "bypasses" bitlocker

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P.S. - while poking fun at "is" rather than "are," I did not mean for my 
statements to suggest that Dan had qualified the nature of this "attack" as 
"brilliant."  That was my own language making fun of the attack, and not 
suggesting that Dan or el Reg was somehow making such a comment.

The other attacks not mentioned may very well be l33t, but I found the 
aforementioned attack funny.  Just wanted to make that clear.

T


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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/05/windows_bitlocker_attacks/

This "method" is almost as bad as Dan's grammar ;)

"Among the methods discussed is what they call a "hardware-level phishing 
attack," in which a target machine is replaced with a counterfeit one that 
provides precisely the same messages and prompts that the original machine 
would have produced. The imposter machine captures user input and relays it to 
the attacker, who then uses it on the real machine."

I love the old, "replace the computer with an exact duplicate while they are 
not looking and get them to type in their passphrase" trick.   Certificates 
anyone?

t

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