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FTA: "the spies made a technological breakthrough by figuring out how to lodge malicious software in the obscure code called firmware" Is this really a breakth
by rubyfan 12y ago
FTA: "the spies made a technological breakthrough by figuring out how to lodge malicious software in the obscure code called firmware"
Is this really a breakthrough? Hasn't this type of attack been around for a long time? Yeah, Reuters. It is interesting that likely a state actor is using this type of attack in a coordinated way. Interesting, but is this really surprising?
In other news, Apple and Google now make a device you can connect right to you skin 24/7.
- kbart 12y agoI find it strange too that people (even some with more technical background) refer to a firmware as something obscure/magical. Chip technologies are so advanced today that you can run a code, that was only possible on a PC a decade or so ago, on a tiny controller. It would plainly stupid for NSA and the like to ignore such opportunity.
- warkid 12y agoRemember report on Toyota accelecator firmware, which had like 10K global variables? Someone 'with technical background' could call this kind of software organization 'obscure' and that fact that it actually (somehow)works - 'magical'))