A fascinating read, and an excellent piece of work. It reminds me of a similar proof-of-concept hack on a common network card firmware: http://esec-lab.sogeti.

A fascinating read, and an excellent piece of work. It reminds me of a similar proof-of-concept hack on a common network card firmware: http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/post/2010/11/21/Presentation-at-Hack.lu-:-Reversing-the-Broacom-NetExtreme-s-firmware http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/post/2010/11/21/Presentation-at-H... (the slides linked from that page have a good more technical overview that the blog post).