In a serious note (microcode viruses aside), I don't think that I or many
other people even knew that Intel's microcode was changeable. I wonder
what the security implications could be?
Does Linux protect the cpu at all in this instance?
jf
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> For a minute there I was pondering whether to write the world's first
> microvirus...
>
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