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Firmware also operates on an extremely basic level, it's not suffer the same usability/compatibility like normal end users software.

• guard-of-terra 12y ago
  Once it needs to communicate via network, it needs a gateway into normal user software somehow. Ditto for accessing the file system.
  • ProAm 12y ago
    I think that is even possible to do at a low level, see how they embed encrypted packets within other packets to sneak out of a network undetected [1]. Even if this technology only lasted 10-15 years that is a LONG time to have the upper hand. [1] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/02/ip-over-avian-carriers-nsa-edition/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/02/ip-over-avian-carriers-nsa-e...
  • kbart 12y ago
    Sending/receiving an UDP packet is not difficult, even on low level. Knowing what filesystem lies above, implementing some crawler (aka search) is no rocket science too. Combine these two techniques, add some simple command protocol and you have access to any file on a targeted device.