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  • JATth@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    So, now they are slowly (or immediately and forever, I don’t know the time span) injecting propaganda into their clone of wikipedia and they are simultaneously thus admitting they are doing it. (to further brainwash the russian citizens)

    So lettme repeat: FUCK PUTIN, and stuff your rubber clones in your ass. (which there are many of)







  • Shorter version: Operating systems set up hardware locks and protections to confine processes, and once set up, they cannot be undone. (the hardware + OS denies modifications to the security policy)

    • Attacker broke out from the app sandbox. (attacker can run code in the infected process)
    • Broke out of the process. (gained root access; attacker can run anything)
    • Broke into the kernel space (gained 100% control over the hardware)
    • Corrupted some kernel memory via a damm magic MMIO accesses nobody knows (hardware vulnerable)
    • Bypassed protections that kernel set up earlier such that it cannot accidentally modify itself.
    • Finally broke the kernel via hardware exploit thus the attacker got rootkit level access.

    Getting arbitrary code execution and root access is one thing, but breaking out from the damm kernel configured hardware protections is insane.

    They basically managed to flip a “read-only” switch to “modify-as-much-as-you-like”. The infected device at this point is broken beyond repair, as the firmware(s) may have been tampered with. End result is a terrestrial spy brick.