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Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed

Posted Feb 8, 2013 15:17 UTC (Fri) by heijo (guest, #88363)
Parent article: Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed

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.

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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...