"Ed White" <[email protected]> writes:
> A researcher of the french NSA discovered a scary vulnerability in modern x86 cpus and chipsets that expose the kernel to direct tampering.
>
It's nothing new really. Similar attacks have been known and discussed
in theory for years.
>From a security perspective X server and anything else with direct
hardware access is essentially part of the kernel.
-Andi
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