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1997-11-09 - Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug

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From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message Hash: b1ff6ff5d260e322be0c27968f73858d5d86b260c1549730146df9499c0c70bc
Message ID: <199711091525.JAA10950@dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-11-09 15:29:32 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 23:29:32 +0800

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From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 23:29:32 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
Message-ID: <199711091525.JAA10950@dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com>
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Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> wrote:
>There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following 
>code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no 
>MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard 
>reboot the only cure):
>
>char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
>
>main ()
>{
>       void (*f)() = x;
>       f();
>}
>
>This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with
>average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works.
>Demand a new CPU from Intel.

This didn't crash my Pentium.  Hoax?

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