pure microshit

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:18:51AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   OK, step into a time machine (gedanken experiment), and go back 10
> years to 1993.  Tell computer-literate people about 512 megs or even 1
> gig of *RAM* available on machines from the corner computer store.  And
> if you really wanted a one-way ticket to the funny farm, tell them about
> *VIDEO CARDS* with 128 megs of RAM.  Who says the ROM has to be just a
> few hundred K ?
> 
>   Actually, Palladium (or whatever nom-du-jour MS has given it today)
> only needs the hardware to checksum/check-signature of the boot-code
> (roughly equivalant to vmlinuz in /boot).  The boot code would then
> check the rest of the OS before loading it.  The OS would in turn check
> all files (including programs) before loading them.

So when someone cracks the way to sign MS's boot loader, all BIOS's will
need to be updated along with the boot loader? :)

Lennart Sorensen
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