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Joanna Rutkowska's blog points to recent paper on a survey of the various problems and attacks presented against the x86 platform over the last 10 years. The paper does not present new exploits but does cover: the BIOS (UEFI) and booting; peripherals; the Intel Management Engine; and several other aspects of x86 insecurity. Some of the problems appear insurmountable as described.
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday October 30 2015, @05:40PM
Most EEPROM chips have a write-lock which is tripped by most firmware to prevent it from being updated. This is standard on UEFI systems where the environment can take a capsule file, and then flash it to the ROM chip without making said EEPROM writable by the operating system.
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