[Swordmaker]

I don't think, frankly, that this is worth worrying about on any platform. The main danger seems to be if someone has physical access to the machine, but if bad guys have physical access to your machine, locked hard drives should be the least of your worries.

Hey, General, we agree. My take was only on the Mac 'cause I was pinging the Mac Ping list... but this type of exploit requires too many ifs... if this happens, then if that happens, then if this is set this way, THEN, maybe it can be bad.

[general_re]

Pretty much. I mean, the fact that they couldn't actually get it to work sort of says it all. "Attention, everyone! We have this theoretical exploit, one that we haven't actually been able to exploit, but it's theoretically possible that if the planets align and it's a Tuesday and you twirl around while jamming a fork into your eyeball, it might possibly conceivably do something bad to your system." IOW, I'm not losing any sleep over it ;)