Joel Rees:
It supports neither your peculiar assertion that microcode is not executable nor your equally peculiar assertion that microcode is not and has not been a cause for concern.
Polynomial (http://tinyurl.com/hdtpa7g): > Let's assume for a moment that you could overwrite microcode in a > useful way. How would you make it do anything useful? Keep in mind > that each code simply shifts some values around in the internals of > the hardware, rather than a real operation. Mark Shuttleworth (http://tinyurl.com/pk8zwmv): > Declarative firmware that describes hardware linkages and > dependencies but doesn’t include executable code is the best chance > we have of real bottom-up security.
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