Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t want to be the guy to tell my boss I’ve bricked the F-35
Yeah… Fighter jets don’t really get bricked.
A brick is when you’ve messed something up to the point where the hardware doesn’t boot and the only possible solution would be to pull out a rom chip and replace it with one with factory settings, but that’s too hard and not worth doing.
But that’s the thing, with the F-35, it’ll never be not worth doing.
You’re assuming they’ll still sell you parts after you tried to bypass the locks
Modern airplanes, especially military, are Uber complex, and mostly made of bespoke components, and take decades and billions to develop. The idea that $5000 will pay for replacing a core component or system is just plain preposterous.
Just look at the fun Russia is having sourcing spares to keep commercial western jets flying, despite having one of the world’s most capable aviation industries.
The idea that $5000 will pay for replacing a core component or system is just plain preposterous.
A flash memory chip is a flash memory chip, whether it’s part of a USB stick or soldered to a custom board. You don’t need to replace the custom board, you need to solder on a new memory chip that contains the instructions you want it to.
Add some zeroes to that
Yeah, that’s not a job I’d be comfortable doing.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Even broke the warranty seal over the USB port.