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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  3 Nov 2008 08:59:32 -0500
To: john@degood.org, 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] punched cards live
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> 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