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In the same way that me turning off secure boot on my desktop means free Netflix for everyone and we should shut down Comcast until there's a fix.

This is a cool attack, but (so far) no more than that. I'd expect that the SpaceX security team is over there putting in some glitch resistant compares at the moment, assuming they haven't already.



Yeah it's quite the opposite actually. Taken from the excellent preso linked above:

"""

• This is a well-designed product (from a security standpoint)

• No obvious (to me) low-hanging fruit

• In contrast to many other devices getting a root shell was challenging

• And a root shell does not immediately lead to an attack that scales

"""




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