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Star Wars BB-8 toy in firmware update risk, say UK security bods

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Re: Pen testing fail?

This is much like the barbie hack where they read out plain text data from the spi flash by wiring it up to a tool that talks to spi devices and did WiFi scans using features that are part of the firmware and used during provisioning.. They "hacked" nothing but made it sound like they did and sites posted their crap verbatim. Big head security reachers and clickbait news sites are a match made in heaven.

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