The 2010 revelation that U.S. cyberwarriors could turn a computer into a "brick" stemmed from research into a design flaw in U.S. computers, according to severa

The 2010 revelation that U.S. cyberwarriors could turn a computer into a "brick" stemmed from research into a design flaw in U.S. computers, according to several sources. It was determined that an adversary could conceivably update computer firmware — the low-level software that dictates how the hardware works — to make the machine useless. And this is considered a revelation? In 2010? In that case, the standard of what constitutes a revelation has definitely slipped over the years. I love the design flaw in U.S. computers bit as well, because U.S. computers are obviously so very different from the other foreign kinds of computer. You know, the ones without updatable firmware, or something.