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mystralineyesterday at 11:41 PM4 repliesview on HN

Repeat after me:

An owner voluntarily downgrading firmware to gain control of your hardware IS NOT A HACK.

And if an adversary is doing this, then they have already breached yoir physical security.


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pramtoday at 2:00 AM

They shouldn’t be able to do it through the charging cable though lol

kube-systemtoday at 12:11 AM

Eh, that’s a bad generalization. defense in depth is a thing and there are many cases where you’d want to protect against attackers with physical access

taneqtoday at 12:14 AM

Arguably it’s a crack. A good one, though.