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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
From: woods () most weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:36:20 -0500 (EST)
[ On Wed, November 12, 1997 at 09:54:21 (-0800), Bruce Robertson wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc"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.
In fact I would guess that most small and medium sized ISPs run Pentium based servers of one description or another, and of course those that provide any kind of shell access, or who offer to run CGIs or ~/.forward scripts, etc., for their users, etc., will all be extremely vulnerable to attack. It's the ultimate denial of service attack, as even the mere threat of actual attack is likely to force such machines to be taken out of service. I'll bet non-Intel replacement chips are very rare these days. I'm kinda sorry I didn't buy the AMD K6 CPU I was planning for a new server before this came out. It'll probably cost me $100 more now if I can even find one! -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods () acm org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>
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