Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-29 Thread skybuck2000
I do remember a very rare and extreme Windows 7 system hang not so long ago. It was probably caused by having to many FireFox tabs open... and somehow a website/FireFox managed to "hang windows 7". Windows 7 might have been busy trying to write data to the harddisk and somehow during that

Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-29 Thread skybuck2000
I am going to issue a warning about all of this software: SandSifter, Linux Mint 18.2 and install-apt and for windows: git For now I suspect running two instances of SandSifter at same time on Linux Mint 18.2 caused file system corruption as can be seen on these three screenshots also

Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-23 Thread skybuck2000
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 1:13:22 AM UTC+2, MRAB wrote: > On 2017-10-23 23:50, skybuck2...@hotmail.com wrote: > > Question: > > > > What do the letters > > > > # v l s c > > > > Stand for in this source code ? > > > > v = not valid/valid > > l = length >

Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-23 Thread skybuck2000
Idea of this software is basically: Generate random bytes and feed them to processor. Observe result of processor if good or bad (error codes). If good check docs. If bad adjust and retry. Somebody wrote a nice short explanation of what SandSifter does to give you an idea (it's a new

Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-23 Thread MRAB
On 2017-10-23 23:50, skybuck2...@hotmail.com wrote: Question: What do the letters # v l s c Stand for in this source code ? v = not valid/valid l = length s = ? c = ? If somebody with lots of python experience could dive into this code and then tell me I'd

Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-23 Thread skybuck2000
Question: What do the letters # v l s c Stand for in this source code ? v = not valid/valid l = length s = ? c = ? If somebody with lots of python experience could dive into this code and then tell me I'd be most gratefull ! :) # # ./sifter.py --unk --dis

Re: Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-22 Thread skybuck2000
Hi, I hope you have the following newsgroup in case you are highly interested in knowing every last detail and every thought I have on this subject matter: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt There I have written some detailed postings. In the other

Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

2017-10-21 Thread skybuck2000
Hello, I just watched this video, it's pretty interesting and somewhat amazing, this guy find a way to find hidden instructions inside processors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ The software which finds these hidden instructions is available too: