[89680] in Cypherpunks
Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Burroughs)
Sun Nov 9 14:24:57 1997
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 10:55:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Burroughs <rich@paranoid.org>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <199711091525.JAA10950@dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: Rich Burroughs <rich@paranoid.org>
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Neva Remailer wrote:
[snip]
> This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax?
I wish. It drops the P120 I tested it on like a rock, when executed
from a normal user account in Linux. This does not crash the PPro or PII
-- my PII just dumps core.
There's been an article on this at CNet, for one, and a lot of discussion
on Bugtraq and comp.sys.intel. If this is a hoax, a lot of pretty smart
people have been fished in.
Rich
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