[HN Gopher] Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode
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       Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode
        
       Author : 0xmarcin
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2021-05-10 18:17 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | a_t48 wrote:
       | Now I want to know if I could hijack someone's machine by sending
       | them a malicious tshirt.
        
         | tyingq wrote:
         | There were the "RSA in one line of Perl" t-shirts that were
         | technically illegal to export from the US.
        
           | merlinscholz wrote:
           | Also commonly found on tshirts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
           | /AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | gmueckl wrote:
       | Is it possible that the code on the shirt was deliberately
       | altered to avoid legal issues?
        
         | kaszanka wrote:
         | What legal issues could it cause?
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | I remember the movie Elysium also had some assembler listings in
       | it. It's not on screen long, but I saw enough to see the "enter
       | protected mode" bit, so apparently x86 is still reigning in 2154.
       | 
       | The still from the movie:
       | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bb830CJCcAEcqly?format=png&name=...
        
         | gav wrote:
         | It looks like they borrowed the code from Intel. It's the code
         | from Volume 3 9.10 "INITIALIZATION AND MODE SWITCHING EXAMPLE":
         | 
         | https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples/blob...
        
         | slim wrote:
         | Great movie. I'm seeding it's torrent since 2014 (available on
         | popcorntime)
        
         | pwg wrote:
         | In the original Terminator some 6502 assembly shows up in some
         | of the "what the Terminator sees" scenes:
         | 
         | https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
        
       | fourseventy wrote:
       | Nice write up!
        
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