[coreboot] It finally happened.

[bari]

ron minnich wrote:
> We predicted this possibility about 10 years ago, and have been
> warning about it almost continuously since then, but could not get
> people to listen.
> 
> http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/07/pc-giant-warns-of-hardware-tro.html
> 
> I wonder if they'll start listening now?
> 
> ron
> 
They sort of have:

  "Implementation of embedded open source linux system designed (but not 
limited) torun on Raritan's OPMA card or in an User Mode linux session 
on any x86 host."

http://sourceforge.net/projects/raritan-oss/

All it takes is the operator of the flash programmer to be malicious or 
anyone else that handles the flash devices.

-Bari