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by rinkhals 5238 days ago
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...

"We have successfully tested that after unloading AppleFWOHCI.kext the current tools won't work anymore."

If that's true then an option for those who need to use FW/TB devices is to remove the drivers from the system folder to prevent loading at startup and kextload/kextunload on demand.

The following named drivers are present in "/System/Library/Extensions/" :

IOFireWireAVC.kext IOFireWireFamily.kext //(The AppleFWOHCI.kext mentioned above is included here) IOFireWireIP.kext IOFireWireSBP2.kext IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext

IOThunderboltFamily.kext AppleThunderboltDPAdapters.kext AppleThunderboltEDMService.kext AppleThunderboltNHI.kext AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext AppleThunderboltUTDM.kext