Writing a firmware-only keylogger
<p><pre><code>   The funny thing is that this is effectively a keylogger that does not run any code on the CPU while it is running.
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I already knew it, but this just reinforced how terribly vulnerable pretty much every computer system is.  Makes me think ransomware/hacks are going to get a lot worse, and I can’t see how the situation can be improved, at least for quite some time.