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  • Just to freak you out, I’ve played around with the EC on my Framework, and it really wouldn’t be hard for someone to create a modified firmware with a key logger built in or something. But AFAIK the EC doesn’t have internet access or a way to screw with the OS, so it would be mildly pointless without accompanying software.

    Modifying the BIOS seems slightly more difficult, although I think some Frameworks are still vulnerable to LogoFAIL.

    I wouldn’t worry about extra chips, they’d either be quite noticeable that they shouldn’t be there, or too expensive to be wasted on a stranger.

    So the chances are, unless you’ve got some proper enemies, it’s fine. I’d definitely update the BIOS (which also updates the EC), and fresh install Windows/Linux, but that’s as far as I’d go.







  • SteveTech@programming.devto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneQR code rule
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    23 days ago

    Maybe, but also I think I was looking at the raw ‘data bits’, not ‘binary’ data. It’s actually almost exactly 4GiB, even when dropping down to minimum error correction (1.7 GiB otherwise).

    (1454942×29531024÷1024÷10244.00

    Edit: So if alphanumeric mode could store lowercase letters, base64 would’ve stored more.



  • SteveTech@programming.devtoaww@lemmy.worldChonk
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    28 days ago

    Satellite imagery seems cheaper than you might think though. I’ve had SkyFi in my favourites for a while after they sponsored a YouTube video, and they seem to start at $8 per km2 for a new photo or $2.50 for a previously taken one.