begin quoting Nicholas Wheeler as of Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:48:37PM -0400: > 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? > How would intel use an opcode remotely to disable a machine, if it > wasn't running windows? :o) Remember the F00F bug? They *say* it was unintentional. As for how to corrupt machines not running an M$ OS... well, do some pattern matching. When the CPU scans some memory -- such as an incoming packet -- and detects a particular pattern, it can take some arbitrary action.... so it wouldn't matter what OS that processor was running. Send a packet, scan the packet, processor detects the pattern, and boom! The blight is bootstrapping into the transcend again. P.S.: Learn to trim, and stop top-posting. It's annoying. -- _ |\_ \| -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
