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		kanox on Feb 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based... > If Xiongmai firmware runs on HiSilicon SoCs there must be some kind of connection. Everybody can buy HiSilicon SoCs and run a backdoored linux distro on them, the only relationship required is "customer". You can buy a hisilicon-based devboard running linux for 100$: https://www.96boards.org/product/hikey/

yorwba on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

> the only relationship required is "customer"

That's what I meant by "third party". Do you have an idea who that is in this case?

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