full-disclosure - Get this dude.

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From: ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com (Kenton Smith)
Subject: Get this dude.

Whoa buddy, what is your problem? I ask an innocent question of an
apparent expert and all I get is this? I said I wasn't a programmer, I
didn't say I was stupid. Of course I understand that you can write a
program to this type of hardware, seems the BIOS companies do it on a
regular basis.
If you want to know what my problem is (other than unhelpful yet
demeaning responses), I want to know if it's possible to put a 624 byte
backdoor in the BIOS (without reducing its ability to do eveything else
that it's supposed to do). This is a serious issue and a serious
question. Is it possible in a program this size written in this language
to communicate with a network card and do all the stuff necessary to
communicate across the Internet?

Seemed like a simple question to me.

P.S. Maybe I am stupid though because all that Moby Dick crap didn't
make any sense to me.

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 12:41, Clairmont, Jan wrote:
> I used to be an embedded assembly programmer,  Intel 8080, Zilog Z80,
> Intel 8088, 8086 etc.  It is not that hard to write code to a flash prom or
> other types of flash memory or static memory.  Whether it is in forth, c or
> assembly, you can deposit information and recall it.  So what is your
> problem?
> 
> The person below did an excellent forensic job of disessembling the code and
> reporting the information, kudos to Juari.  Are we security people or No,
> then 
> Captain Ahab said, "let's all make this pledge, Death to Moby Dick!"
> 
> Not that I like killing white whales, Moby Dick's one of my favorite Novels.
> 
> I'm claiming the 250,000 if Juari doesn't get it first!
> Jan Clairmont
>