On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:38:10PM -0500, fsmithred wrote: > On 02/05/2016 08:48 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > Didier Kryn wrote: > >> > >> The ability to brick the motherboard is brand new. Therefore admins > >> should be seriously protected and warned against this eventuality, at least > >> until it percolates into the general culture. > > > > IIUC, this means malware will now be able to not only > > erase, but to render its targets unbootable. > > Also creating a new hardware recovery business. > > It seems somewhat bleak. Am I overreacting? > > > > > > Go with the flow, dude. It's worth the risk of malware for the benefit of > having your vendor push firmware updates whenever they want. (Did I get > that right?) > > Actually, I think you're underreacting. I would edit your statement to > say, "...render its targets unbootable or worse." Malware authors and > others who might have bad intentions for your hardware generally want it > to keep working.
Perhaps not in warfare. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
