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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

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__void ◴[] No.32235294[source]
nowadays 98% of things implying "security" are actually unwanted products, protections for "the other side" or trivial distortions of reality where, conveyed by "security" itself, the user himself becomes the product

- no, I don't need protections for the side channel, I never asked for them

- no, I don't need a unique identifier, who is the demented person who asked you for it

- no, I am not going to glitch the power supply, and even if I did it means I am interested in doing it and wish it worked instead I was prevented from doing it

- no, I don't care at all about having a hw store for certificates, which are ephemeral and dropped from above anyway so what am I supposed to trust?

- and so on

"not secure by design" nowadays comes close to being a coveted feature

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LaputanMachine ◴[] No.32235757[source]
> no, I am not going to glitch the power supply, and even if I did it means I am interested in doing it and wish it worked instead I was prevented from doing it

Are you talking about brown-out detection circuits, or is there something else?

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1. darzu ◴[] No.32239212[source]
The first xbox was hacked using an attack via the power supply I believe. It caused some instructions in the boot sequence to be skipped i think. It’s a really cool story, wish i had a link.