From: Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As for how to corrupt machines not running an M$ OS... well, do some
pattern matching. When the CPU scans some memory -- such as an incoming
packet -- and detects a particular pattern, it can take some arbitrary
action.... so it wouldn't matter what OS that processor was running.
Send a packet, scan the packet, processor detects the pattern, and
boom! The blight is bootstrapping into the transcend again.
Come on Stewart, you're better than that. How does the CPU scan an incoming
packet? A CPU doesn't know wtf a networking card is. All it knows is that
it recieved an interrupt from a given device, then read and wrote a few
values to a few ports. The most it could do is continuously scan RAM for
the pattern- which would be noticable seconds after ti started as
performance went to 0 and all spare RAM bandwidth was sucked up by the CPU.
We'd also have boxes randomly crashing all over the place.
Gabe
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