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Syeed Ali via plug on 4 Jun 2023 11:24:12 -0700
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Re: [PLUG] Gigabyte Mother Boards
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- From: Syeed Ali via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Gigabyte Mother Boards
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 11:23:49 -0700
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- Cc: LeRoy Cressy <rev.cressy@protonmail.com>
- Reply-to: Syeed Ali <syeedali@syeedali.com>
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:57:16 +0000
LeRoy Cressy via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> In reading this article I found that the hacks were M$ Windows hacks.
There's significant enough interest in Linux that it's useful to hack
into, for example, a sysadmin's computer.
> https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/
> 271 models of Gigabyte motherboards
.. what.
> Smith acknowledges that Gigabyte probably had no malicious or
> deceptive intent in its hidden firmware tool.
That's an outright lie. Everybody with a lick of sense should know
that automatic updates are Bad.
It's doubly stupid to have automatic updating _firmware_. Maybe grandma
turns her computer on and it's bricked for unknown reasons.
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