Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
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Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
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#3Installing linux on a hard drive never sounded impressive before.
Re: Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
#4Installing linux on a hard drive never sounded impressive before.
Well, to be fair, it's a bit of a pain with UEFI.
But this is really amazing. I'd love to see how it could be extended to other OSes, if possible?
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#5I think some hard drives like some Seagates has a serial console in the firmware that provides low level access that data recovery companies for example use.
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#6Installing linux on a hard drive never sounded impressive before.
Well, to be fair, it's a bit of a pain with UEFI. But this is really amazing. I'd love to see how it could be extended to other OSes, if possible?
I'm not sure about the other controllers, but if this one has a Cortex M3, then anything that runs on an M3 could hypothetically be ported.
One of the SE sites assembled a list. Shockingly, the question isn't closed yet!
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27594/what-op...
Re: Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
#7Does a jellybean part just mean its very common?
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#8Does a jellybean part just mean its very common?
Yes, it means that you can buy them like jellybeans (and they're about the same size, and black, which is either the best or worst flavor.)
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#9> Because Linux caches the shadow file (like all files recently accessed), I have to generate a lot of disk activity for the file to be 'pushed out' of the cache
http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches
$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
or as non-root
$ echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Re: Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
#10This is incredibly scary. Will HD vendors start implementing firmware code signing anytime soon? Or will some enterprising hackers start working on an open source firmware implementation?