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In this light, the surprising thing is that we don't hear about firmware bugs more often. Have manufacturers have been doing a great job of keeping things simpl
by moconnor 14y ago
In this light, the surprising thing is that we don't hear about firmware bugs more often. Have manufacturers have been doing a great job of keeping things simple and exhaustively testing, driven by the fear of the losses an incident and recall would cause?
- belorn 14y agoRare bugs on released hardware are almost by nature ignored in favor of new products. Its also why fuzzing is such as great method in finding security bugs.
- helmut_hed 14y agoNo revenue accrues from hardware that's already been shipped :)
- 7952 14y agoThis is probably common in routers. It is easier for most people to buy a new one than upgrade the firmware that was 3 years old when the device was bought.
- kisielk 14y agoIn my experience many software developers are pretty ignorant about hardware issues since they rarely have to deal with hardware beyond their desktops or laptops. If you live in the IT world for a while and work with enterprise-grade equipment these kinds of problems actually crop up a lot. For any given piece of gear in your server room there is likely a massive list of firmware bugs for it and its subcomponents. Sometimes they are fixed, sometimes not. When you run in to one that affects and need to deploy a firmware fix to dozens or hundreds of servers, it's not a whole lot of fun.