I'm not saying taking down all M$ servers would be a bad thing, in the long run ... but in the short run, the internet would be effectively rendered 'broken'. How would intel use an opcode remotely to disable a machine, if it wasn't running windows? :o)
On 6/20/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Nicholas Wheeler as of Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:39:14PM -0400: > Assuming Microsoft has hidden code in their operating system that enables > them to disable all M$ computers at any point in time .... that's another > way ;-) Erm.... why hidden? > Or cisco's routers, for that case. > > Theoretically either of those two companies can take the internet "hostage". Why would the first one be bad, again? That's a pipe-dream. *PLEASE* make it come true. I'm not convinced that disabling all M$ machines is a bad thing. Oh, for that matter, Intel and AMD could embed opcodes that could disabled a machine. Wait, Intel already did that. -- _ |\_ \| -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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