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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:01:37 -0700
Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit
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On 07/30/2013 04:33 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> If you're running it as a regular user and you can brick the board,
>> you might have bigger problems.
> 
> Exactly, and finding those problems tends to be worth the hardware hassle. :)
> 

Even as root the number of things allowed to brick the hardware is quite
small.  Call it destructive testing.

	-hpa