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Re:The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun by ThrowawayTestr on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:38PM (#32441699)
That's what I was thinking of, the 360 not the Switch.
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Re:The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun by bri3d on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:26PM (#32442219)
Yep - the Switch had an issue in the mask ROM / first stage bootloader too, but it was a traditional software one, where the recovery mode bootloader passed an unverified length to a memcpy and smashed the stack.
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Re:The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun by ThrowawayTestr on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:34PM (#32446068)
I love that buffer overflows remain a tried and true method of hacking even with of all our modern technology.
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