A team of three anonymous students built a malicious I/O device. They claim that the device and its driver can only access the memory on the device, however in reality the device tries to secretly read passwords from the main memory and pass these on to an external party.

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A team of three anonymous students built a
malicious I/O device. They claim that the
device and its driver can only access the
memory on the device, however in reality the
device tries to secretly read passwords from
the main memory and pass these on to an
external party.
Which of the following statements are
correct?
I. Using port mapped memory makes this
malicious behaviour more difficult.
II. Reading large amounts of memory to
search for passwords can be sped up
using DMA.
Transcribed Image Text:A team of three anonymous students built a malicious I/O device. They claim that the device and its driver can only access the memory on the device, however in reality the device tries to secretly read passwords from the main memory and pass these on to an external party. Which of the following statements are correct? I. Using port mapped memory makes this malicious behaviour more difficult. II. Reading large amounts of memory to search for passwords can be sped up using DMA.
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