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Re: more evil firmwares found



Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> wrote:
>
>> Duh, of course the *definition* is software.  Any stream of bits is
>> software.
> 
> *Any* stream of bits?  I think that's going a bit far.  I think you are
> confusing the algorithm with the input.  The input is not software.  It
> cannot be executed on a machine.

Given any finite string of bits, you can construct a Turing machine in a
deterministic way and execute it.
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