tomalley8342@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)
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2 months agoSure, if they were designed that way, I would not call them defects either.
Sure, if they were designed that way, I would not call them defects either.
Just because all defect stock are routed to the US inventory, doesn’t mean that US inventory is made up of all defect stock.
It’s an exploit path to a UEFI bootkit, so at the very least you’d have to throw your motherboard away or find someone that can physically overwrite it through an external flash programmer or something. And the patch should be delivered through a UEFI firmware update, so if your motherboard is no longer supported you would have to buy a new one. And for laptops and embedded devices having everything soldered in, the motherboard is basically the whole computer, so I don’t think it’s that much of an exaggeration.
I guess it’s true that if you have ring 0 access you’re boned, bug if your ring 0 access gets upgraded into ring -2 access you are even more boned. They put those security boundaries in place for a reason after all.