atiredittechnician

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[–] atiredittechnician@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The reason that this is news is because it allows malware to embed itself into the processor microcode once kernel is breached. IE: If it is exploited for compromise, you either have to have the knowledge and hardware to reset the processor microcode manually (Requires an SPI flash tool) or you toss the hardware entirely. There's no just 'blow the drive away and reinstall the OS' solution available.

[–] atiredittechnician@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I want an anime of this. haha.