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woodrowbarlow on May 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely ...

there's also the concern of physical attacks, via the motherboard's RJ45 or USB.

mschuster91 on May 1, 2017 | [–]

At least USB doesn't have device-initiated DMA, but USB descriptor parsing bugs have in the past led to exploits (I remember the PlayStation jailbreak).

pmoriarty on May 1, 2017 | [–]

A good argument to epoxy those ports shut, if you're really worried about that.

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