Opt Green: KDE Eco's New Sustainable Software Project

Posted Jun 3, 2024 13:39 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Opt Green: KDE Eco's New Sustainable Software Project by jhe
Parent article: Opt Green: KDE Eco's New Sustainable Software Project

It's been a security risk since before you could do in-field updates of firmware and microcode without a hardware swap (it was a risk before Intel was founded, for example, when processors weren't single-chip devices).

Two things have changed: one is the ability to do those updates remotely, the other is that we've entered a world where those vulnerabilities are actually interesting to a subset of attackers, since the other weak links are becoming stronger.