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by mschuster91 4616 days ago
Oh, it's just three or four USB stacks you have to mess up: 1) Windows (hey, they've found bugs exploitable in every Windows from 95/98 up to 7!), 2) Linux, 3/4) Phoenix/Award BIOS.

Assuming a government is the adversary (and we ALL know that the NSA sits on a very comprehensive list of exploits!), then this part is actually the easiest.
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moutarde 4616 days ago
It's not just four stacks (or more, because the article also mentions Apple Macs and BSD) that you have to "mess up". You also have to mess them up in such a way that you can exploit them without a disk even being mounted. That four/five/six stacks are all exploitable to this extent because of buffer overruns (or similar) seems implausible.
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