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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc


From: Leigh Porter <leigh () wisper net>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:27:38 +0000

Bruce Robertson wrote:

"Randy" == Randy Bush <randy () psg com> writes:

    Randy> can this 'discussion' please be moved to ms-dos-weenies or
    Randy> something?

You miss the point.  Thousands of Web servers out there are
Pentium-based.

Why is that a problem? Unless somebody could execute the code on the
boxthen it is not a threat - closed systems, like WWW servers (most
servers like
that really) should not be in any danger.

A multi-user box, or anything that can give shell access would be really
worth
upgrading to something that didn't have the bug!

As to if it should be discussed on the nanog list - well, maybe not :)

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