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Re:Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery by battDesigner on Saturday July 23, 2011 @09:11PM (#2798352)
When you mention "battery firmware", are you referring to the settings in flash that you can change regarding safety cut-off points, etc?

Or were you actually able to make the battery's IC execute arbitrary code?

In my mind, firmware only refers to executable code. Curious though if there is a way to actually run code on those guys.

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Re:Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery by swolchok on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:52PM (#2805768)
They called it a battery firmware update, but they meant the pages of settings you can change in flash. I was able to dump raw memory from the chip, but I could never figure out which generic microcontroller the battery controller had been built on top of (at least I assumed it had been built that way), so running code was a nonstarter.
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