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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by azernik on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:32PM (#14870283)
Judging from what I've seen of their drivers, yeah, their firmware/microcode is probably an embarrassing bug-ridden code base. But it also represents a lot of investment in low-level/low-layer features that they would prefer to hide from competitors (much more sensitive than the higher-layer logic in the driver proper).
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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by paulie_a on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:37AM (#14872638)
While I can understand that sentiment and perspective. Those people are wrong, they are inconveniencing their competitors to a tiny degree and over estimating the value of those features due to the awful implenation.
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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by mihular on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:46AM (#14873290)
OTOH anybody can reverse engineer it. Just a tad bit more work.
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