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by Bluerise 3946 days ago
The difference is that the rPi blobs actually run on the GPU, the CPU is unharmed.

Still, both have access to the same memory. But that's a similar issue on the PC.

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Well perhaps a better example might be System Management Mode on Intel CPUs, which easily allows for undetectable backdoors with constant access to the same physical memory as anything else running on the CPU.