acallan

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1. 31.▲
   by acallan 14y ago

   A couple of things (I work for Intel, and do not speak for them): -A ucode hack would be the ULTIMATE backdoor -A ucode hack could damage or destroy (melt) the part. Think of things like thermal diode trim values, voltage, etc. Intel had a
2. 32.▲
   by acallan 14y ago

   This isn't true. Ucode is updated every time you reset, and on each CPU. At the fab, the release ucode is burned into the design. But rarely does this last through the lifetime of a stepping. In fact, one of the main reasons why BIOS/EFI ex
3. 33.▲
   by acallan 16y ago

   I am a UTCS graduate, working in industry. At UT, I spent 2 years programming both Haskell and C++, and then 2 years with very little programming. We focused instead on theorem proving and linguistics. This has a lot to do with Dijkstra's