Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC] | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 1998 19:19:37 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981119215610.26981A-100000@nnm>, John Fulmer writes: +----- | In a serious note (microcode viruses aside), I don't think that I or many | other people even knew that Intel's microcode was changeable. I wonder | what the security implications could be? +--->8
I knew. And got flamed heavily when I mentioned it on a mailing list, because everyone else on the list was absolutely certain that it wasn't and in fact couldn't be. (Not this list, one where clues are somewhat rarer.)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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