Comment on Self-Destructing Chips: Researchers Unveil Techniques to Thwart Sophisticated Cyberattacks
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 months ago
sounds like it closes a data theft vector but opens one hell of a ddos vector in its place.
Still, having this option can’t be a bad thing. Ultimately it’s an engineer (or PM I suppose) that decides to use this chip based on the product requirements.
Sometimes you want to fail closed, or purposefully fail catastrophically if some constraints aren’t met.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Of a permanent DoS, like frying a chip remotely. Things which were urban legends in my childhood are being made reality.
I don’t think greed’s the problem, it’s necessary for survival of a society. But like many other necessary things it should be contained, and right now it really isn’t.