Shuttleworth: Firmware is the universal Trojan

ACPI comes from an era when the operating system was proprietary and couldn’t be changed by the hardware manufacturer. We don’t live in that era any more.

However, we DO live in an era where any firmware code running on your phone, tablet, PC, TV, wifi router, washing machine, server, or the server running the cloud your SAAS app is running on, is a threat vector against you.