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I don't understand the hate for USB. The machine does nothing with them unless you give them permission to do something.
by emilfihlman 9y ago
I don't understand the hate for USB.
The machine does nothing with them unless you give them permission to do something.
- wuch 9y agoProblem is not what your machine does with an USB device, but what the USB device does with machine [0]. [0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118854/attacks-via-physical-access-to-usb-dma https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118854/attacks-...
- floatboth 9y ago> USB 3.1 does support DMA Holy shit where did that come from o_0 > USB 3.0 runs as a binary blob in the BIOS Is that running on the chipset or the CPU?
- qb45 9y agoI'm under impression that USB 3.1 DMA is a semi-fake news viral meme. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14669377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14669377 > Is that running on the chipset or the CPU? USB 3.x controllers are more complex than predecessors and typically run some firmware on the controller chip to implement functionality which used to be implemented in the OS drivers.