Trust no one: backdoored CPUs

2004-08-15 Thread Major Variola (ret)
We worried about compromized OSes, BIOSes, read last week about a PNG library bug that lets images run buffer exploits, now CPUs can be backdoored: From Scheier's Crypto-gram: Here's an interesting hardware security vulnerability. Turns out that it's possible to update the AMD K8 processor

Re: Trust no one: backdoored CPUs

2004-08-15 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: We worried about compromized OSes, BIOSes, read last week about a PNG library bug that lets images run buffer exploits, now CPUs can be backdoored: From Scheier's Crypto-gram: Here's an interesting hardware security vulnerability. Turns