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Exposing drives directly with no virtualization layer - is there a risk that a malicious user might somehow flash a trojan firmware onto the drive, and then lat
by 0x0 6y ago
Exposing drives directly with no virtualization layer - is there a risk that a malicious user might somehow flash a trojan firmware onto the drive, and then later the drive is used for a different customer?
The classic Sprite Hard Drive mod comes to mind https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=5 https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=5
- progval 6y agoNot an answer, but any dedicated server provider would have the same issue.
- IgorPartola 6y agoI think that’s why they have encryption and also you can own your own drive.
- vegardx 6y agoI'd imagine people that are paranoid about these things wouldn't be sending their unencrypted data to third parties anyway. So there's that. I'm a little skeptical to the claim that passthrough is so much faster than virtio-scsi or something similar. I'd imagine that the disk controllers and network would be the bottleneck. And as an added bonus you prevent people from doing shenanigans on disk firmware. We're talking about plate spinners here, latency isn't really what they're known for.
- mike_d 6y agoWhen you are no longer a customer, they mail the drive to you.