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Why does the bios/firmware have no safeguard against this? Imagine a rogue program or virus damaging your hardware, even on OS X. Also, the headline is jumping
by belltaco 10y ago
Why does the bios/firmware have no safeguard against this? Imagine a rogue program or virus damaging your hardware, even on OS X.
Also, the headline is jumping to conclusions, this is what the poster wrote:
" It is unclear what the source is, but most people are suspecting the deprecated audio driver on Windows."
- realkitkat 10y agoWell, that makes up for an interesting ransomware - you have 48h to pay up 4 btc or your shiny new mbp hardware will get borked.
- paulmd 10y agoI have to imagine that any self-respecting author would use '1812 Overture' just for style points.
- zlynx 10y agoWhat would the mechanism look like for a firmware fix? The driver doesn't go through any firmware to drive the audio.