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Although it is beneficial, in order to understand our later material, to know many details about modern computer architecture, it would be unrealistic to explain all these subtle details here. Thus, we refer the reader to literature [see 54, 59, 118, 127] for a thorough treatment of this topic. We limit this chapter to the most important terms that are necessary to understand this work. We start with the rootkit evolution. This evolution highlights why the technical background that is presented in the following sections helps to understand this work.
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.
Joseph Weizenbaum,
German/American Computer Scientist
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See http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot [accessed 25 February 2014].
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See the Linux source code files arch/x86/include/asm/dma.h and arch/x86/ include/asm/io.h, for example.
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Stewin, P. (2015). Technical Background, Preliminaries and Assumptions. In: Detecting Peripheral-based Attacks on the Host Memory. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13515-1_2
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