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« Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 12, 07:25 AM » |
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A bit worrying indeed. I would imagine that there are quite a few very skilled whiz kids out there that would put their minds to achieving this.
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« Reply #2 on: Jul 27, 12, 07:48 AM » |
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Given the scope and efficiency of some modern gangs, I'd not be too surprised to see a ready-made botnet based on this technology sold to an unsuspecting public - all it needs is one man inside a manufacturing plant to 'get at' the machine that flashes the bios chips before assembly.
Of course the scope for selling a 'custom' batch to a large company is higher, and if a government decided they wanted to keep tabs on a decent percentage of their populace I can't imagine many better ways to avoid being accidentally rumbled by Kaspersky et al...
Could you imagine how much fun somebody with a reason to could have having dreamed up an iPad equivalent?
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« Reply #3 on: Jul 27, 12, 09:17 AM » |
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Given the scope and efficiency of some modern gangs, I'd not be too surprised to see a ready-made botnet based on this technology sold to an unsuspecting public - all it needs is one man inside a manufacturing plant to 'get at' the machine that flashes the bios chips before assembly.
Of course the scope for selling a 'custom' batch to a large company is higher, and if a government decided they wanted to keep tabs on a decent percentage of their populace I can't imagine many better ways to avoid being accidentally rumbled by Kaspersky et al...
Could you imagine how much fun somebody with a reason to could have having dreamed up an iPad equivalent?
I would imagine that if enough money is offered to the right person, this could happen ?. |
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« Reply #4 on: Jul 27, 12, 09:41 AM » |
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I would imagine that if enough money is offered to the right person, this could happen ?
Entirely possible. When my hardware-hacking partner-in-crime gets back from defcon in a few days we're going to do some work on some form of automated clean-up tool to see if it's practical - a lot will depend on the availability of clean firmware images because almost all of it's closed-source which makes it very hard to verify the code that should be in there. This is where closed-source is a really bad idea as it makes it damn near impossible to defend against this kind of crap. (Pat's a jammy bastard - just spend a week at Black Hat in Vegas, then flew overnight to Rio for defcon... I reckon it must be my turn next year... ) |
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« Reply #5 on: Jul 27, 12, 11:22 AM » |
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That should be an interesting project. Looks like a bit of a long term one though.  |
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« Reply #6 on: Aug 04, 12, 03:18 PM » |
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 04, 12, 07:32 PM » |
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'kin 'ell. My sentiments exactly...  |
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« Reply #8 on: Aug 07, 12, 10:41 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: Aug 08, 12, 12:35 PM » |
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Paranoia gives you grey hair  I'll have to remember that one... |
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« Reply #11 on: Aug 09, 12, 04:56 AM » |
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Ah, that explains things.....  |
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« Reply #12 on: Aug 10, 12, 09:23 AM » |
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Paranoia gives you grey hair so what is  's excuse then he hasn't got any apparant grey hair ( I don't see much of any type of hair in his photos) |
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« Reply #13 on: Aug 10, 12, 10:28 AM » |
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so what is 's excuse then he hasn't got any apparant grey hair ( I don't see much of any type of hair in his photos) Just don't dare me...  |
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« Reply #14 on: Aug 10, 12, 11:29 AM » |
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Just don't dare me... SOunds like there still is some, |
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« Reply #15 on: Aug 10, 12, 05:13 PM » |
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SOunds like there still is some, I hope you enjoy eating breakfast with that image in your mind... |
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