17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
cwe@it.kth.se (Christian Wettergren) writes:
Take a look at the IEEE Symp on Security and Privacy Proceedings from 1995, I believe it was. There was a paper there about security bugs in the Intel processors, enumerating a number of them in 80386 for example. There where at least one or two byte sequences that plainly stopped the processor.
Yes, and this is where the real risks are. The original question was entirely about explicit subversion. The larger risk is accidental flaws. Same with software in most cases. Rick. smith@sctc.com secure computing corporation