Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
  • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    I still don’t get why webcam LEDs aren’t just wired up to the same power circuit as the camera. Not only would it make it much more secure, but it would also be really simple, and eliminate the need for LED control firmware.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      Because we live in bizarro world where a resistor is more expensive than a microcontroller, by a whole 0.0001¢ so 10,000 units they save a whole dollar. You can’t argue with prophet savings like that.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          It’s like a religious calling to all C-suite executives. Number have to go up, a flatline is bad. So costs are cut even to the detriment of the product, even though the cost savings are negligible and the detriment to the product significant.