[E-Lang] Relying on H/W

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap@eros-os.org
Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:33:42 -0500


> There are only a few reliable hardware faults (Intel floating point
> comes to mind.).  Most of the errors you describe are sporadic.  If you
> can't write an exploit based on them, I'm not sure they matter much...

Uh, Chris? Have you actually looked at the bug lists in question? Even the
officially published list is unfortunate. The one available under NDA is, of
course, much worse...

Jonathan