10x Computer Club

Y: BIOS


Y: we hardcode all that level of “shift” keys to the BIOS


Y: also


Y: the AND gate to 1-bit example


Y: so basically whenever we see the first 0


Y: we know it’s not 1


Y: the output is not 1


Y: so instead having to go through the entire 12 bit table


Y: we stop at the first one and conclude


Y: but sometimes the first 0 comes later


Y: so could we at the bios level decide


Y: that with AND operations the row that starts with 0 is shown first


Y: and with OR the other way around

X: the heartbleed weakness

X: you know, its pretty well known in openssl community

X: but nobody gave a try to seek the memory registers using handshake signals

X: because everybody (just like me) would have thought that its obviously blocked