Mrunal Sabnis

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Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/

>Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.

Reminds me of @pluralistic 's red team blues event yesterday. Discussion about "trusted computing"

Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.

WIRED
@richmintz MTA also issues refunds for double charged OMNY requests pretty quickly.
@TheWarOnCars As much as we like to dunk on people owning cars in NYC, she did the right thing by trying to secure off street parking instead of using up valuable street space for parking. If more car owners were as responsible, we would face less opposition for other non automobile oriented uses.
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