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Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs

Posted by kdawson on from the linux-last-in-line dept.

Eukariote writes "Recently, Intel patched bugs in its Core 2 processors. Details were scarce; soothing words were spoken to the effect that a BIOS update is all that is required. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has now provided more details and analysis on outstanding, fixed, and non-fixable Core 2 bugs. Some choice quotes: 'Some of these bugs... will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code... Some of these are things that cannot be fixed in running code, and some are things that every operating system will do until about mid-2008.'"

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  1. Re:Shock Felt Round the World by Overzeetop · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, don't worry, the government will write a check and your grandchildren will pay for it. Sure, there'll be a lot of teeth gnashing and such, but yuo gotta do what you gotta do, and the government isn't really in the business of doing things efficiently. Lest you feel I'm being overly harsh, I spent almost a decade with NASA and have seen the process up close, then a couple years on black programs. I now work in industry. It's almost frightening how inefficient such a large organization can be.

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  2. So how long before we start seeing... by clickety6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... Intel Core 2 processors embedded everywhere... paper weights, key ring fobs, geek jewellery, ...

    (I still have my nice Pentium key ring from the last big chip snafu!)

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  3. Dude, you have to understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Quantums are everywhere today. Like, I TOTALLY didn't know I had two cartons of milk in my fridge before I opened it this morning. That is a HUGE wave-function collapse.

  4. Oblig. Moe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, so you are looking for a laptop processor, eh? Core 2 is it?!?! Listen you, when I catch you, I'm going to stuff sausages down your throat, and starving dogs up your butt! Then I'm going to use your tongue to paint my boat.

  5. Still happy with my Dual Opteron by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I look forward to upgrading my 248s to 275s on my birthday.

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  6. Re:Yay AMD by Intron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Everything boils down to native x86 instructions"

    bytecode on Sparc gets compiled to Sparc, on PowerPC it gets compiled to PowerPC. The point is that you can distribute one binary bytecode, not source, that runs on the JVM on any of those platforms.

    "What language you write in doesn't matter"
    How do I write in VB, C# or Objective C and distribute binaries that run on any of those platforms?

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