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minus-squarecestvrai@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThe USB port of the machine is also an attack vector. Infect the machine and reprogram it to infect every drive being flashed Hacked media would install Bitcoin miners on the victim’s “smart” TV ??? Profit
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months agoEh, I suppose, but they could design the USB drive really hard to infect. The more narrow your use-case, the more options you have to secure it. They could even limit it to just HDMI, which would probably be a lot harder to attack since HDMI doesn’t support much besides audio and video.
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The USB port of the machine is also an attack vector.
Eh, I suppose, but they could design the USB drive really hard to infect. The more narrow your use-case, the more options you have to secure it.
They could even limit it to just HDMI, which would probably be a lot harder to attack since HDMI doesn’t support much besides audio and video.