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To: James Yu who wrote (2026)11/8/1997 12:51:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (2) of 6843
 
James: <If the bug is true,> What do you mean? I just compiled the program posted on the Usenet, with four lines of code, and a P100 I have handy just locked up. No surprise but K6 just works as it should - it generates "invalid opcode exception" and safely returns to operating system. That's it.

The most dangerous in this situation are various security holes in web browsers. By now they were able to read user files only, but with Java executables who knows what those virus makers are thinking of?

BTW, are there any ideas as what could be the possible scale of recall? Any estimations?
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