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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:39:43 GMT
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- Andy Finkel (andy@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
- : >
- : >Right, but there's nothing preventing a nasty application from bypassing
- : >your ROM routines and talking directly to the disk hardware, screwing things
- : >up. On a system with properly-implemented memory protection, however, it's
- : >much more difficult (if at all possible) to write such an application.
- :
- : If you are interested in the subject, you might want to do some research
- : sometime. The Internet Worm is fairly interesting, since it ran
- : on Unix boxes. (remember, Unix has protected memory).
- :
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- Yes, Unix has protected memory; that doesn't mean that it's bug free. The
- Worm took advantage of bugs in Unix, and took immense knowledge and ingenuity
- to create. On the other hand, a second-week computer science student would
- have no problem intentionally screwing up a system without memory protection.
-
- :
- : andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
- :
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