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chx ◴[29 Nov 16 15:39 UTC] No.13063659[source]▶

The damage here is much bigger than a few laptops. We have been trying to educate, encourage people to go and try everything ;) saying you can't write software damaging your hardware. This sort of bug violates that trust and IMO it's a big deal.

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1. slededit ◴[30 Nov 16 04:07 UTC] No.13068415[source]▶

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Nobody has ever claimed you could write drivers without damaging hardware. When I was writing my own toy kernel there were many warnings such as:

"Probing memory-mapped PCI devices may have unpredictable results and may theoretically damage your system, so once again we discourage its use." 1

[1] http://wiki.osdev.org/Detecting_Memory_(x86)

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