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That's my least concern to be honest. My rice cooker could have a spy device installed without me knowing. I think the first priority is software exploits and b
by yeukhon 13y ago
That's my least concern to be honest. My rice cooker could have a spy device installed without me knowing. I think the first priority is software exploits and backdoors because they are the easiest to implement and the cheapest to operate with.
- sillysaurus3 13y agoActually, it's sort of a myth that hardware is fundamentally harder than software. The toolsets simply haven't been as powerful until recently. Hardware can be thought of as hardcoded software. But it's no longer the case that hardware is hardcoded. Hardware is becoming increasingly sophisticated, especially in their ability to be reprogrammed on the fly.
- nathancahill 13y ago> "Hardware.. ability to be reprogrammed on the fly." Um.. that's not hardware.
- mschuster91 13y agoYeah, firmware. Programmable hardware. And these days, everyone and their dog is programmable...
- GeneralMayhem 13y agoThe line is a little fuzzy, but I'd consider EEPROM to be essentially programmable hardware. x86 has dozens of nonstandard but functional opcodes; how do you know that none of them does something unfortunate?
- im3w1l 13y agoYou don't even need that. You could even just have a completely ordinary, run of the mill, valid opcode do something unexpected when given "magic" data. Like if you mov the value 0xDEADBEEFBAADF00D, the code also jmp's to the top of the stack, as an easter egg.
- drdaeman 13y agoFPGAs are pretty much hardware. And they're reprogrammable, as in "re-wireable".
- nathancahill 13y agoInteresting. I did not know that.
- yeukhon 13y agoRegarding hardware reprogrammed on the fly. That sounds like something FPGA is really good at for powerful computation, except, you can't make a sensor detector unless there is already a physical sensor detector attached. It would be cool to make hardware to make hardware :)
- taneliv 13y agoThat's true, but network equipment, including mobile baseband processors, are silicon as well. Exploiting them would need help from the network operator, but I think mobile carriers are not very protective of their customers against government inquiries (or at all).
- mschuster91 13y agoWhy go to the network operator? Simply fire up your own, the hardware is sub-$1000 these days and the software open source.
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