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		mrjin on Sept 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers bake malware protection directly into ... To cause complete data loss does not need much data to be written. I'm wondering how firmware can distinguish legitimate and malicious ones.

hulitu on Sept 17, 2021 [–]

It'a a team of researchers. I'm sure they have a lot of great ideas. They could check every byte to see if it is a malicious one.

heavenlyblue on Sept 17, 2021 | [–]

Or they could check if bits are malicious.

ungamed on Sept 17, 2021 | | [–]

Just check for the evil bit.. its easy.

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