23 Jul
2013
23 Jul
'13
6:37 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:08:54PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
And it has to have things like USB support because of people who insist on trying to boot from USB-connected floppies without considering the implications :-)
And having the USB keyboard work (which means USB HID support, USB hub support, USB controller support, PCI support, etc).
Read every source of security advisories you can find, learn to disassemble and analyse other peoples' low-level code, and get a job with somebody who write BIOSes.
Seconded. Geohot's Sony Playstation hack was a textbook case.
Once the control of the hardware has been taken over, there is no way to take it back.
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Len Sorensen