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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After reading that whole article I feel no more enlightened.

They mentioned secure boot, is secure boot part of the exploit or does the exploit invalidate secure boot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because if I understood it right, it will be presented at DEFCON tomorrow, this news are just hyping it.

We don't know what is the install vector, it might be a non issue (for regular people) where you need a custom chip programmer and hands on the hardware

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The wired article mentions kernel access to be sufficient.