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Re: more evil firmwares found



* Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> [040423 04:01]:
> This is ridiculous.  Extending the definition of software past "a set of
> formal instructions for a general purpose computing device, that
> describe an algorithm that runs on the device to transform an input
> string into an output string", is not productive IMO.

Please, not again. Please go read the archives why software always meant 
"any stream of bits" and only gets sometimes narrowed in meaning to
"instructions" in the recent time.

Hochachtungsvoll,
  Bernhard R. Link

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