RE: And now a Hack for Intel Chips?

[Bruce Collins <Bruce.Collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok Lukas, let's keep it rated G for Gentleman.

Bruce "Hoss" Collins
Project Leader/System i Administration
AAA Cooper Transportation
(334) 671-3106




> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:32 AM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: And now a Hack for Intel Chips?
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Yet another reason we're glad we run i and do so on POWER. This
> > article
> > > from Slashdot points to a hack that doesn't care much about the OS,
> > it
> > > hacks the hardware!
> >
> > Larry, i really respect your expertise, but this is bullshit.
> >
> > Even POWER CPUs have bugs and errata, and we simply have no idea if
> > these are exploitable or not. IBM is cooking with the same water Intel
> > uses. I'm even sure if the POWER errata are public...
> >
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