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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