The Two Laws Of Rootkits
I loved Mike Rothman’s title to his take on the Cisco IOS rootkit (original article here).
What about “everything is vulnerable” didn’t sink in?
Okay, technically a rootkit isn’t a vulnerability, but we’ll forgive Mike since I know he knows the difference, and he writes his Daily Incite first thing in the morning.
To simplify, here are the Two Laws of Rootkits:
- You can create a rootkit for anything that runs software.
- Everything runs software.
(If you don’t get the sarcasm, I can’t help you).
kurt wismer May 19
if i’m not mistaken, i believe you’ve just stated that the ability to support that functionality is inherent to the general purpose computing platform…
though i’m not sure if *everything* truly qualifies as a general purpose computer (yet) it certain seems to be going in that direction (unfortunately)…