Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jul 30 2013 - 20:02:30 EST


On 07/30/2013 04:33 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> If you're running it as a regular user and you can brick the board,
>> you might have bigger problems.
>
> Exactly, and finding those problems tends to be worth the hardware hassle. :)
>

Even as root the number of things allowed to brick the hardware is quite
small. Call it destructive testing.

-hpa


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