Keeping root access even through a reinstallation due to a HDD firmware hack.

[Polyphony]

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack



Okay, so I'm pretty interested in low level hacking, but this guy manages to reverse engineer the logic on his HDD so that he can have it execute his own arbitrary code.  I thought it was like INSANE that this was possible. The cool thing about this article though, is that he explains everything he did in a fair bit of detail. 

[vezzy]

I read this article a few days ago, too.

While it is a formidable hack, it just goes to show you what hardware vendors enable when they don't have any type of signing or integrity certificate.

[Thor]

Well that was impressive. Very interesting read.