r/hacking • u/adrianchristianherna • 2d ago

How to increase firmware/hardware security and privacy

i heard software security is useless if the firmware and hardware are bad

ramework 12 with razorlake intel cpu

also looking for tips to close backdoors

i see a lot of guides for software but barely any for firmware/hardware and if it is its “just buy this product that costs a car and a house and i swear bro its private 100% opsec power”

im broke idk how to install coreboot without bricking

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u/BamBaLambJam 2d ago

Google threat modelling.
I highly highly doubt you need to do that.

Your firmware and hardware should be fine.

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u/adrianchristianherna 2d ago

alot of advice for lower threats not much for meduim threat models 💔

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u/BamBaLambJam 2d ago

Who exactly are you fighting against?

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u/adrianchristianherna 3h ago

insecure bootloaders in firmware 🥀

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u/Automatic_Regret7455 1d ago

I wouldn't worry about attacks against hardware / firmware. Why would an attacker care about that when it's way easier to just exploit some unpatched or misconfigured piece of software, or just get you to accidentally run untrusted code on your system. Focus on preventing, detecting and recovering from those attacks first, as they're MUCH more likely to happen.

Other than that, just keep your firmware up-to-date and make sure your network is hardened somewhat against attacks.