[109140] in Cypherpunks
Re: [ZKS Press Release] FAILURE OF PENTIUM III UTILITY Exposed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hahn)
Thu Mar 11 12:02:15 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:45:41 -0600
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Mark Hahn <MHahn@tcbtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04020a18b30cbc9f2f9b@[139.167.130.246]>
Reply-To: Mark Hahn <MHahn@tcbtech.com>
At 07:20 PM 3/10/99 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>From: Dov Smith <dov@zks.net>
>To: ZKS Press Releases <zks-press@zks.net>
>Subject: [ZKS Press Release] FAILURE OF PENTIUM III UTILITY Exposed by
Zero-Knowledge Systems
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:59:29 -0500
> ...
>Zero-Knowledge Systems programmer Mario Contestabile designed a
>small ActiveX program that bypasses Intel's Pentium Serial Number
>(PSN) Control Utility. ...
Of course, you could choose not to run executables from suspect sources, like
say, ActiveX programs.
The security issue here is with Microsoft, not Intel.
Any hunk of hardware will have an operating program of some sort, and that
program should not be in the habit of giving up confidential data (even when
spoofed by an ActiveX component with a pretty digital signature from a large
software company)
-MpH
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