Reply #: Assumes facts not in evidence

[patriothackd]

We will go back to the four-part analogy:

1. The furnishings
2. The Windows CE operating system
3. The foundation
4. Various hoses leading into the soil where the foundation is

That #1 and #2 can be replaced with a PCMCIA card was originally reported by Bev Harris. The failure to authenticate the files on the PCMCIA card was not reported by either Harris or RABA. Failure to authenticate is the new information in the Hursti Report II, which describes exactly how authentication (such as it is) is performed.

The implications of #3, radioactive waste in the foundation -- a contaminated bootloader -- were not reported by Harris, RABA or anyone else. That is the "nuclear bomb" referred to by Avi Rubin and the other scientists.

The existence of #4, the delivery mechanisms for contamination, was reported only insofar as the PCMCIA card can be used to contaminate. The difficulty of cleanup (PCMCIA card cannot be used to clean up the contamination) and the ability to recontaminate using multiple, specific, built-in delivery mechanisms has never been reported by Harris, RABA, or anyone else.