1 posted on
03/19/2009 9:45:32 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
2 posted on
03/19/2009 9:45:45 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Well, I guess I’m glad I’ve got AMD.
To: ShadowAce
Is it a permanent write, or does the hack clear when you cold boot?
4 posted on
03/19/2009 10:04:36 AM PDT by
zeugma
(Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
To: ShadowAce
They have no business posting this. They should send the hack to Intel. To do anything else is akin to a breach of national security.
9 posted on
03/19/2009 10:11:47 AM PDT by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: ShadowAce
They have no business posting this. They should send the hack to Intel. To do anything else is akin to a breach of national security.
11 posted on
03/19/2009 10:22:44 AM PDT by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: ShadowAce
Okay, so how would Intel "fix" these vulns in existing chips? I'm not a chip guru, but I know the microcode can be patched from the outside -- would that be the nature of the fix?
Or would that be the nature of the attack -- a bogus "Intel CPU patch" that gets into the regular OS updates (whether Windows or Mac)?
15 posted on
03/19/2009 5:54:37 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: ShadowAce
A detector shouldn’t be impossible. Running SMM code causes the CPU state saved and restored, flushes the cache and can mess with program timekeeping. Such operations are not common, so a constant recurrence of them would be an indicator you’ve been rooted.
Beyond that, you need specialized hardware to really see what’s going on. Our resident FPGA programmer (sorry, can’t remember which FReeper you are) could shed more light on that.
16 posted on
03/19/2009 7:53:07 PM PDT by
antiRepublicrat
(Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
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