Joanna Rutkowska, a stealth malware researcher at Singapore-based IT security firm COSEINC, says the new Blue Pill concept uses AMD's SVM/Pacifica virtualization technology to create an ultra-thin hypervisor that takes complete control of the underlying operating system.
... and later ...
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"The idea behind Blue Pill is simple: your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it awakes inside the Matrix controlled by the ultra thin Blue Pill hypervisor. This all happens on-the-fly (i.e. without restarting the system) and there is no performance penalty and all the devices," she explained.
This mentions only AMD technology, whom I trust is working on some sort of hardware detection mechanism.
And, to me. Old news is good news. History can teach you lot, maybe even help you attain wisdom.
I gotta have a look at that algorithm. I've had a theory (actually more of a hypothesis) that using VM with fractal calculations could make a wicked combination.
Computers are all math, at root (pun intended).
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