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Destroy your boot (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by maris@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago

The SoC on the motherboard has a special EDL mode

This is kinda like the SoC's pre-bootloader, which loads the bootloader and can be used to flash a new bootloader

EDL mode is locked behind vendor specific certs/keys, so it's unaccessible to the device owner