Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed

[Posted February 7, 2013 by jake]

Matthew Garrett has posted a brief warning for Samsung laptop owners on his blog: "The recent Linux kernel commits avoid one mechanism by which Samsung laptops can be bricked, but the information we now have indicates that there are other ways of triggering this. It also seems likely that it's possible for a userspace application to cause the same problem under Windows. We're still trying to figure out the full details, but until then you're safest ensuring that you're using BIOS mode on Samsung laptops no matter which operating system you're running."

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Posted Feb 8, 2013 15:17 UTC (Fri) by heijo (guest, #88363) [Link]

I find Samsung's approach to security and reliability pretty fascinating.

On their Android phones, any application can access all memory.

On their laptops they went to the next step, and they can brick the system.

I wonder if I can make my Samsung LCD explode with suitable inputs.

Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed

Posted Feb 10, 2013 17:43 UTC (Sun) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

To add to that list: on Samsung ARM ChromeBook it is possible to fry speakers from software, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_C...

Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed

Posted Feb 9, 2013 12:31 UTC (Sat) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439) [Link]

It is an issue under Windows too.. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22855.html