mhoye on Nostr: The PySkyWifi story is sort of the same shape as the Project-Zero-revealed ...
The PySkyWifi story is sort of the same shape as the Project-Zero-revealed jBig/iMessage hack, if small and benign:
https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html
Turing-completeness is real. If you can arbitrarily flip one byte from both sides of any connection, you can build a NIC in-situ. If you can control one "if" and a few kB of RAM, you can build a computer in-situ. That's all it takes.
You can always, always tell when the people who paid attention in the theory classes show up.
https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html
Turing-completeness is real. If you can arbitrarily flip one byte from both sides of any connection, you can build a NIC in-situ. If you can control one "if" and a few kB of RAM, you can build a computer in-situ. That's all it takes.
You can always, always tell when the people who paid attention in the theory classes show up.