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And the quite capable computers that do things like being controllers for your hard drive, or wifi or other devices on your "computer" ? A relevant example is
by PeterisP 4y ago
And the quite capable computers that do things like being controllers for your hard drive, or wifi or other devices on your "computer" ?
A relevant example is this article "Evil never sleeps" https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114 https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114 about the ability of those "secondary computers" to function without the cooperation of the primary computer, in this case the iPhone where they even work (sometimes maliciously) while the main device is "turned off".
- einpoklum 4y agoOh, yes, these definitely exist. There was even a paper a few years back in VLDB from Samsung about how they put un-utilized ARM cores from their disk controllers to do work off-loaded from a MySQL database.