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Joanna Rutkowska's blog points to recent paper on a survey of the various problems and attacks presented against the x86 platform over the last 10 years. The paper does not present new exploits but does cover: the BIOS (UEFI) and booting; peripherals; the Intel Management Engine; and several other aspects of x86 insecurity. Some of the problems appear insurmountable as described.
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday October 30 2015, @07:04PM
Sun open sourced a lot of the SPARC design so anyone can use it if they want. UltraSPARC IV was very late and therefore slow. It's replacement, project Millennium, was killed in 2005 ie 5 years late and no product. Rock flopped. That's why they went with Niagara (T1) and Fujitsu SPARC64.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].