Re: Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:57:33PM -0400, Travis Biehn wrote:

Yes - in addition, since some attackers have been shown to compromise not only UEFI firmware, but also blobs in peripheral devices, a re-flashing of those components from HW land. In many cases, this type of recovery is 'impossible'.

Practically, individuals will take a stab on guessing attacker capability between; zero sophisticated persistence and h/w re-install survivability and act accordingly. It is difficult to get that right, if not impossible.

Thanks. I suppose it is safe guess that non-negligible part of the world is persistently owned?