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What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
"From a security standpoint, the presence of such “dark matter” in SoCs is worrisome. Forget worrying about the boot ROM or CPU microcode – the BIST (Built in Self Test) infrastructure has everything you need to do code injection, if you can just cajole it into the right mode."
By Andrew "bunnie" Huang
Yep.
And from all accounts, a very nice guy. A great explainer, an amazing hardware designer, yet remains the kind of guy you could just go have a beer with.
@corlin The way with which he can explain the hardware, the software, and tie them together with working theory is crazy.
Felt like I could understand much of what he was saying.
@corlin This dude is a beast in the industry.
He's going places