Re: Intel Pentium III security `bug'

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Zoki wrote:
[snip]
>However,
>anything that can be enabled/disabled by the user can also by somebody
>else whithout the users knowledge. 

Not if the hardware is incapable of having that feature turned on after it
is running. It would be like saying some software could make your floppy
disk write to a disk that had the read/write tab set to read-only. The
hardware will not do it, regardless of any software commands.

Tony
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