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To: "Ed White" <ed.white@libero.it>
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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"Ed White" <ed.white@libero.it> writes:

> A researcher of the french NSA discovered a scary vulnerability in modern x86 cpus and chipsets that expose the kernel to direct tampering.
> 

It's nothing new really. Similar attacks have been known and discussed
in theory for years.

>>From a security perspective X server and anything else with direct
hardware access is essentially part of the kernel.

-Andi