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Comment by sakkura

4 days ago

Such a bug could have been exploited by certain big state actors.

Those that have access to international network links.

Those that have the ability to generate new firmware that simply passes the CRC32 checksum.

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tptacek  4 days ago

A bug in a nonfunctional autoupdater. Big state actors. Got it.

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