misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoJust about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attackarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down18
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minus-squarebioemerl@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt’s all fun and games until the user has bit rot or some stupid thing is offset by one or a row doesn’t exist somewhere and you have to correct for it
minus-squaremindbleachlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoA corrupted bitmap should only look ugly. There is no decoding or compression - only translation, and sometimes not even that. A bitmap is the platonic ideal of a buffer overrun being comically obvious and trivially preventable.
It’s all fun and games until the user has bit rot or some stupid thing is offset by one or a row doesn’t exist somewhere and you have to correct for it
A corrupted bitmap should only look ugly. There is no decoding or compression - only translation, and sometimes not even that.
A bitmap is the platonic ideal of a buffer overrun being comically obvious and trivially preventable.