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Old 14th Jun 2018, 18:31
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I will say this, a lot of interesting "unfixable" problems have been found the last few years for computers in general. As a programmer the "rowhammer" exploit amuses me a lot, for example. Or the more recent meltdown and spectre cpu bugs. If you cant trust neither Cpu nor memory to behave as expected it suddenly takes much more effort to write secure software.

So, in theory, there could be a lot of "hard to fix" bugs in the flying hardware. But it would still require _some_ physical or logical access, unless you come out with superfancy radio-intereference stuff, but that really sounds like science-fiction...
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