Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" (2022)

Re:Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" ... by MrLeap on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:29PM (#43042815)

GPU rootkits are sounds like misnomer unless they start getting rewritable persistent storage (maybe they do now and my knowledge is out of date).

If you've got malicious code in your GPU, shut it off wait a few seconds, turn it back on.

Actually looking at the definition, my understanding might be off or the definition has morphed over time. I used to think it wasn't a rootkit unless it survived reinstalling the OS.

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Re:Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" ... by Joel_Mckay on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:52PM (#43043383)

These have direct access to the dma channel of your storage device, and POC have proven mmu/CPU bypass is feasible.

My point was the current architecture is a kludge built on a kludge... =3

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