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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years

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276 points chei0aiV | 6 comments | 27 Oct 15 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 1.058s | source | bottom
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JoeAltmaier ◴[27 Oct 15 15:20 UTC] No.10458522[source]▶
Confused? The entire world uses x86 for almost everything. A couple of consumer products don't, namely some phones.
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1. metalliqaz ◴[27 Oct 15 15:25 UTC] No.10458564[source]▶
Not confused, just hipster.
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2. Xophmeister ◴[27 Oct 15 15:29 UTC] No.10458601[source]▶
"I use a really obscure instruction set, designed by a bunch of ex-Peruvian monks, working from a bedsit in Shoreditch. You've probably never heard of it."
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3. JoeAltmaier ◴[27 Oct 15 15:35 UTC] No.10458648[source]▶
I really had to do that once. Reverse-engineer a wifi driver in an embedded board, some niche RISC instruction set invented by god knows who. Invented a disassemble-annotate-repeat tool called GOLEM based entirely on bitmap-pattern scripts, that would produce a listing. You could edit the listing to include symbolic names for code points and data, then re-run the tool and it would use those names (instead of hex addresses) in the new listing (built a symbol table iteratively). Ultimately I had complete source for the firmware again.
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4. pyvpx ◴[27 Oct 15 16:34 UTC] No.10459152{3}[source]▶
is GOLEM available publicly and under an open source license?
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5. JoeAltmaier ◴[27 Oct 15 19:31 UTC] No.10460496{4}[source]▶
I wish. It was a project I did as a contractor. That company has changed source control systems twice since then, and been bought. I guess I should have kept a copy.
6. JoeAltmaier ◴[06 Nov 15 15:50 UTC] No.10520048{4}[source]▶
I asked; they're three source control systems further down the road (VSS => ClearCase => SVN => Git). My friend couldn't find it. Sigh.