On Jan 4, 2014 12:56 AM, "Peter Stuge" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sam Kuper wrote: > > Brossard > > Not a very nice word around here.
Sorry; I didn't know there was bad feeling. > Don't take people's word for things, Sam, but do more research yourself. > > The internet and even people presenting at conferences are not > indisputable sources. Very much agreed; but we each have to start somewhere :) > Brossard included the abbreviation PIC in one of the slides for his > talk about how he supposedly created a backdoored BIOS (using an open > source x86 firmware implementation). > > He identified PIC as one of the components on PC mainboards. > > Unfortunately he seems to think that PIC refers to the family of > microcontrollers developed by Microchip instead of what it really > refers to; something very different, a quite well-understood and > rather fundamental component for everyone with strong knowledge about > PC technology. What would you recommend as a good primer (textbook; website; manual; whatever) that would give someone with limited experience enough knowledge to avoid making that mistake and others like it? Many thanks, Sam
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