This is such a cool blog post, and has pulled the covers back on something I have been curious about for some time.
Makes me wonder why more people aren't abusing this. I can see the gold, silver and platinum level open source sponsors shoving some big logos down your throat by writing directly to the framebuffer during your next yarn add.
(I realize it is more nuanced than that, since it requires elevated priviliges to write to the device ... but hey how many sudo curl bash scripts have you seen out there in the wild? time to pwn the framebuffer)
Makes me wonder why more people aren't abusing this. I can see the gold, silver and platinum level open source sponsors shoving some big logos down your throat by writing directly to the framebuffer during your next yarn add.
(I realize it is more nuanced than that, since it requires elevated priviliges to write to the device ... but hey how many sudo curl bash scripts have you seen out there in the wild? time to pwn the framebuffer)