< gmaxwell>
Someone in #bitcoin earlier shared a link from 2013 demonstrating persisting a compromise via disk firmware that was loadable from a running system over SATA. Keep that in mind when thinking about clicking suspicious links! :)
< jb55>
after watching a video about kernel fuzzing finding thousands of bugs (most still unfixed) I'm not surprised that firmware/drivers are still a large source of exploits
< jb55>
I think fuzzing found like 20 externally exploitable bugs in the USB stack the first time they turned it on
< jb55>
makes me want to try that redox rust OS...
< Chris_Stewart_5>
ah, it seems this is solved by just generating one block before executing this test case to get out of ibd. I guess bitcoind just makes the assumption we are in IBD if we are at the genesis block
< bitcoin-git>
bitcoin/master fb43415 practicalswift: Remove global symbols: Avoid using the global namespace if possible
< bitcoin-git>
bitcoin/master 8ab4f28 MarcoFalke: Merge #15622: Remove global symbols: Avoid using the global namespace if p...
< bitcoin-git>
[bitcoin] MarcoFalke merged pull request #15622: Remove global symbols: Avoid using the global namespace if possible (master...globals-1) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15622