It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked • Hacker News Board

Re: It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked

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Post by RinTohsaka » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 11:20 AM UTC

garaetjjte wrote: post #76

gerdesj wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are absolutely correct with your assessment. I recall Alan Cox (welsh bloke, big beard, Linux kernel hacker (well: simply hacker in general will do)) posting on G+ about someone booting enough Linux on a hard disc to get a prompt. No not the disc itself, off the firmware on the controller. You may also like to consider that nearly all modern server systems have an iLO/iDRAC or whatever that can do all sor…

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

Thank you for this. Wish this is the kind of thing that was posted on HN more often.

Re: It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked

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Post by drrty » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 7:00 PM UTC

Why would an attacker black bag a laptop containing a pre-owned vendor BIOS, by the author's own suggestion? This exercise makes no sense.

Re: It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked

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Post by drrty » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 7:04 PM UTC

Why would an attacker black bag a laptop with a pre-owned vendor BIOS, by the author's own suggestion? This exercise makes no sense.

Re: It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked

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Post by qntty » Tue, May 01, 2018, 2:37 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #118

andrewaylett wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction

I mean about the converse. Why does it work?

[Proof by contradiction doesn't have anything to do with the converse of a statement as andrewaylett incorrectly stated and EGreg is being a little bit difficult here.]