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ta988 on July 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user te...

That's great, nothing stops you from using an alternative microcontroler that doesnt check signatures and mimic that one.

bigiain on July 7, 2021 [–]

Yeah. If you can futz with the hardware, pretty much any security can be circumvented.

Desoldering a SOC and replacing it with something similar enough but different in its trusted boot config is somewhat less trivial than "manipulate the firmware" though, at least in my opinion...

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