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Hardware devices with embedded software used to be air-gapped. As soon as phones got Bluetooth, you got Nokia Bluetooth viruses that would spread via public tr
by kalleboo 3y ago
Hardware devices with embedded software used to be air-gapped.
As soon as phones got Bluetooth, you got Nokia Bluetooth viruses that would spread via public transit, and you had to go to a service center to fix it since it wasn't designed to be updated.
Even in the days of "software was complete on launch", security was absolutely abysmal and we just relied on most people being honest.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoYeah, saying "embedded software used to be complete and final back in the day" is such a rose-colored glasses take. When I was a kid we could occasionally pick up car phone (that's what we called cell phones back then) conversations by changing to a particular channel on the TV.