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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: john@degood.org, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] punched cards live
Date: Mon,  3 Nov 2008 08:59:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2dfedd80dc38adae7b55f9405afe50a9@quanstro.net> (raw)

> It's the ACPI Secure Computing Initiative:  fixed input format == no
> buffer overflow vulnerabilities.  Long live Herman Hollerith!
>

if bios wants to own the os, using buffer overflow in acpi
seems like more effort than necessary.

- erik



             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03 13:59 erik quanstrom [this message]
     [not found] <1CF8271E0E449545D858FAB3@192.168.1.2>
2008-11-04 16:25 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-05 10:39   ` Eris Discordia
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-04 15:25 Eris Discordia
2008-11-03  7:01 ron minnich
2008-11-03 12:06 ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-03 13:29   ` Brantley Coile
2008-11-03 13:37 ` John DeGood

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