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Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware

Feb 20, 20209 min
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That laptop on your desk or server on a data center rack isn't so much a computer as a network of them. Its interconnected devices—from hard drives to webcams to trackpads, largely sourced from third parties—have their own dedicated chips and code as well.

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