Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots

8 days ago (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)

> The Tegra X2 is an SoC used in devices such as the Magic Leap One, and Tesla's Autopilot 2 & 2.5 promising a secure bootchain.

I guess they didn’t learn from the Tegra X1 which was famously responsible for the boot rom exploit on the original model of the Nintendo Switch.

  • They did: "Elise [...] worked in the past on Nintendo Switch hacking"

    This was written on the original posted page (before the link was changed) when you commented.

    • Oh I meant Nvidia didn’t learn from that mistake, not the researcher. If I were Nvidia and had such a high profile hack of a customer’s product, I’d do everything in my power not to repeat it haha.

Huh, I thought Magic Leap went out of business.

Didn't know they were still around!

  • Unfortunately they are. They're a former shell of what they were. I think they're changing their focus to lenses or something. Last I heard they're partnering with Google and it's absolute ass. The company is effectively dead and being carved out for parts by Google is my take.

    It's a real bummer because they were the only company I was actually interested in seeing pursue Augmented Reality. Now it's literally the most evil companies Meta, Google, and Apple.

    The 90s optimism of future tech is dead and all that's left is whatever this is.

Just curious, how fast can these embedded systems boot?

I hope Nvidia's new offerings (Orin, Thor, etc) don't have the same issue in their bootROM. That would be an incredibly expensive mistake.