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Is this problem exclusive to Apple MacBooks? Surely there are a number of products on the market with microcontrollers in a number of components that would be s
by thornjm 15y ago
Is this problem exclusive to Apple MacBooks? Surely there are a number of products on the market with microcontrollers in a number of components that would be susceptible to similar attacks?
- drivebyacct2 15y agoSony's Playstation Portable (PSP) was hacked wide(r) open after they discovered that they could use it's "smart chip" to emulate a special Sony battery that left the firmware flashable. "Pandora's Battery": http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html http://www.krizka.net/2008/02/10/what-is-pandoras-battery/ http://www.krizka.net/2008/02/10/what-is-pandoras-battery/
- lgeek 15y agoTo be more exact, a battery with ID 0xFFFF (hhm, not sure if it was 16 or 32 bit) enables service mode on older PSPs. This ID is stored on a serial EEPROM. Incidentally, you could just disconnect the data pin of the EEPROM. I don't remember if it was I2C (in which case the pin was SDA) or SPI (MISO). So it wasn't exactly a security vulnerability, more like a failed attempt at security by obscurity.