From ad4df259c84a6b29ab87409a344c83a46c6263b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:51:33 -0400 Subject: typo fix --- (limited to 'site/faq') diff --git a/site/faq/index.php b/site/faq/index.php index 158e22c..71dfad6 100644 --- a/site/faq/index.php +++ b/site/faq/index.php @@ -643,9 +643,9 @@ <Basstard`> "the receiver of the FIS"
<CareBear\> in the case we're considering that's the host controller hardware in the chipset and/or the kernel driver
<CareBear\> most likely kernel driver
- <CareBear\> francis7 : all SATA devices have flash-upgradeable firmware + <CareBear\> francis7 : all SATA devices have flash-upgradeable firmware
That last part is important. The firmware can be upgraded from the OS.
- <CareBear\> the harddrive is a nice computer-in-the-computer because it also has persistent storage + <CareBear\> the harddrive is a nice computer-in-the-computer because it also has persistent storage
Regarding USB:
<CareBear\> then the attack surface becomes much smaller, but assuming a malicious harddrive then it can still try to get angry with the operating system
<CareBear\> a usb drive can e.g. send malformed USB descriptors (how the PS3 was broken)
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