Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:44:35 -0500 From: Mike Hoskins <mike@seidata.com> To: "Kragen \"Skewed\" Sitaker" <kragen@DNACO.NET>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Pentium Bug Message-ID: <34677233.598C2FD3@seidata.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971110073027.10601A-100000@picard.dnaco.net>
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Kragen "Skewed" Sitaker wrote: > Is this intended to keep malicious people from crashing your computer? Perhaps I mis-understood the original message the script was posted in, but I thought it was plainly stated in the original (even though not much more than the script was shown in the re-post here) that the true purpose of the code was to do (quote-un-quote) "postmortem cleanup". As if to say its real target use was locating programs containing the malicious opcodes after a lockup has occurred... so as to hopefully track down the culprit. That was, at least, my understanding... and I've been known to blunder once or twice in this life. ;) Either way, this is my last post on this issue... here, at least. --- Mike Hoskins SEI Data Network Services mike@seidata.com
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