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Comment Re:No, not "merely by sending" (Score 1) 141

Sending, really? What, down a modem, via email, on a webpage?

Reporter Sam Varghese did slightly misstate things in that sentence, but then quoted me a couple of sentences later with the full picture:

Remember the 'Pentium Processor Invalid Instruction Erratum' of 1997, exposing all Intel Pentium and Pentium MMX CPUs to remote security attack, stopping them in their tracks if they could be induced to run processor instruction 'F0 0F C7 C8'?

You know, reading with context with improve your life. Give it a try: Even Slashdot pseuds can summon up the attention span, on a good day.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

Comment Re:Even better: Free Linux software... (Score 1) 636

b374 wrote:

Even better: Free Linux software...

[Same old lame list of toothless malware]

Ah, nostalgia: I made fun of all of those, and some several dozen others, about a month ago. Except dar.b and HackTool.Linux.BF, which appear to be known only to Kaspersky: Post actual information about those, and I'll be glad to mock them, too.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

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It is masked but always present. I don't know who built to it. It came before the first kernel.

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