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wmf on Jan 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inception - Root any machine over FireWire, Thunde...

The IOMMU is basically ACLs for RAM, but OSes don't use it as much as they could (possibly because Intel disables it on random SKUs).

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