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Re:On Hacking MicroSD Cards by mikeash on Sunday December 29, 2013 @03:19PM (#6981131)
I wonder what the odds are that the microcontroller in an optical drive contains bugs that can be exploited with a specially crafted disc.
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Re:On Hacking MicroSD Cards by nitrogen on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:31PM (#6982047)
IIRC either the original Xbox or the Xbox 360 was sometimes modded/jailbroken by using a modified firmware for the internal DVD drive. Not exactly the same thing, but in the same vein.
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Re:On Hacking MicroSD Cards by mikeash on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:54PM (#6985779)
I could definitely see it being easy to write bugs where verification code assumes that nominally read-only devices always return the same data for two subsequent reads of the same location, and then getting up to mischief by taking advantage of that assumption.
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