On Sat, Aug 8, 2026, at 3:49 PM, ron minnich wrote: > for all of you who ever suffered with smm, here's another trivial break. I > like this one a lot. > > https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii > > "It turns out that you can break SMM — the secure, ultra privileged > execution environment running invisibly in the background of every x86 CPU > — with nothing more than an obscenely long-running machine instruction." > > That was easy. Usually it took more effort.
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