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This is crazy. Talk about supply chain hacks, now even mobos aren't safe out-of-the-box. Although it guess it doesn't even need to be a supply-chain hack if the
by sbf501 4y ago
This is crazy. Talk about supply chain hacks, now even mobos aren't safe out-of-the-box. Although it guess it doesn't even need to be a supply-chain hack if the mobo comes from a dubious country.
- squarefoot 4y agoIt had to happen soon or later. Firmware (and therefore hardware) is the absolute best place to put malware into: no way to detect it as it runs at higher privilege than everything else, including the operating system itself. That's the reason we should push for open firmware and hardware everywhere whenever we can: if hiding spyware into systems becomes technically trivial as updating a firmware image, I expect it to be abused pretty much everywhere.