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Yes, it's not something totally unprecedented that we hadn't even imagined possible before. You are correct there. How is it not a complete takeover? I realize
by sliverstorm 12y ago
Yes, it's not something totally unprecedented that we hadn't even imagined possible before. You are correct there.
How is it not a complete takeover? I realize news articles are not the best technical sources as they get terms & concepts wrong, but I am reading that the firmware is completely reflashed, which means the HDD CPU has been utterly "pwned", for lack of a better term.
- qb45 12y agoTechnically it's pwned, but you are still limited by the amount of time you have for reverse engineering, implementation and validation. For example, it seems that they obtain storage area by calling some kind of drive's own reserved space allocator, without hacking it to hide this usage from host queries. That's clearly a "limited hack" with potential for improvement.