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Bricked Windows 8 machines, methinks
Authored by: betajet on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 02:37 PM EST
Here's a new one from Slashdot:

Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific

Matthew Garrett, a Linux kernel developer who was investigating the recent Linux-on-Samsung-in-UEFI-mode problem, has bricked a Samsung laptop using a test userspace program in Windows. The most fascinating part of the story is on what is actually causing the firmware boot failure: "Unfortunately, it turns out that some Samsung laptops will fail to boot if too much of the [UEFI] variable storage space is used. We don't know what 'too much' is yet, but writing a bunch of variables from Windows is enough to trigger it."

If this is all it takes, it's pretty easy to spread a virus that does this after it has reproduced a bunch of times.

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