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From: John DeGood <john@degood.org>
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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!

ron minnich wrote:
> This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this
> signature must contain a trailing
> blank character.)"
>
> So where do we get the guys who design this stuff? Can we send them
> back? Or put them in an infinite loop in a time machine (oh wait see
> the subject).
>
> ron
>