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We may one day reach a point where it might be easier to ask: What cant runDoom?

But it also means the toothbrush is ripe for hacking.

a screenshot of Doom running on a smart electric toothbrush

However, this does raise a question about security.

Smart stuff, sloppy security?

However,side-channel attacks have been able to bypass thisand extract data from the chips flash memory.

Such attacks do take a lot of effort and require nearby access to the targeted microcontroller.

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