Google's business model

Posted Jan 16, 2026 16:32 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Google's business model by cloehle
Parent article: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)

> There's no way for the 'newer' spec cards to have >2GB and all features are constrained by that?

SD cards >= 2GB (ie gen2 and newer) use block addressing instead of byte addressing and are incompatible with hosts that only speak 1st-gen SD.

The different SD generations report different card info versions, so the old host is expected to safely reject any card with an unknown version.