On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:01:41 +1300 "G. M. Bodnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:58:34AM NZDT, Luuk Paulussen wrote: > > > > >Maybe - but I'd bet every new card that comes out gets bought up by the > > >other guy & completely pulled apart in a lab. > > > > I'd like to see someone pull apart a silicon chip and see how it works. > > They have to be quite careful about reverse engineering products anyway as > > there are lots of legal implications. > > There are also a lot of hardware problems with that. There is a growing > trend to add protection circuitry that is designed to make chips > tamperproof. Probe it up and you might not see anything ever again... > > Greg > --- - > yes and this is something that some linux kernel developers were muttering about not too long ago - the brilliant possibility of doing an aggressive probe during install and or bootup and ba da bing no more computer. perhaps not as far fetched as i'd thought at the time. cheers peter
