02-13-2020, 08:59 PM
(02-13-2020, 04:55 PM)ptx Wrote: 1) Could a malicious program persist itself on the Pinebook Pro (or PinePhone) to survive after the OS is installed, for example by flashing malicious firmware or modifying the boot process? Or will it definitely be clean with a fresh OS install?
In theory it's possible to get reinfected if the onboard boot chip is written with something, but in general everything is loaded from sdcard/emmc etc so wiping those would wipe everything. The payoff of getting this to work would be pretty low so I doubt anyone would do this.