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Re:Modern CPUs have a backstage cast by andai on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:25PM (#36132548)
What does hostile mean in this context?
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Re:Modern CPUs have a backstage cast by sweetjuly on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:21PM (#36132993)
It might be desirable to not trust RAM as other agents who have access to physical memory could be tampering with it.
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Re:Modern CPUs have a backstage cast by intelVISA on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:54AM (#36135672)
Any machine you may not have True Control over e.g. outside of JTAG range, in the cloud, runs proprietary software.
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