More blog postings against the indefensibility and viability of a Blue Pill attack vector.

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/blog/

http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2006/08/blue-pill-is-quasi-illiterate.html

Even our own Tom Yager has an excellent post on this.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2006/06/blue_pill_is_an.html

While I'm posting the counterpoints to the Blue Pill hypothesis, I want to defend the Blue Pill's founder, Joanna Rutkowska, a bit.

1. She's one of the good hackers. She came up with the Blue Pill, but most of the hype isn't created by her

2. She even states it isn't rocket science to create.

3. So far, the only misconception she has spread is that it can't be detected. Heck, who hasn't ever been wrong before.

4. She presented her original paper and asked for feedback.

5. She was asked to make the presentations, not the other way around.

6. She doesn't hate AMD, it's just the platform she's working at the moment with her real job.

Counterpoint articles are helpful in furthering the discussion. It's helping to counteract the hype. Just don't blame the author for everything. This thing has blown way past her own control. She's been helpful and open to arguments since day 1.