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Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps? by mschuster91 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:04PM (#6651178)
Oh, it's just three or four USB stacks you have to mess up: 1) Windows (hey, they've found bugs exploitable in every Windows from 95/98 up to 7!), 2) Linux, 3/4) Phoenix/Award BIOS.

Assuming a government is the adversary (and we ALL know that the NSA sits on a very comprehensive list of exploits!), then this part is actually the easiest.

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Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps? by moutarde on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:55PM (#6651356)
It's not just four stacks (or more, because the article also mentions Apple Macs and BSD) that you have to "mess up". You also have to mess them up in such a way that you can exploit them without a disk even being mounted. That four/five/six stacks are all exploitable to this extent because of buffer overruns (or similar) seems implausible.
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