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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (39745)	11/9/1997 10:58:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim,>>>What worries me is that the hackers could have a field day with it. Is there anything that can detect the commands that cause the crash before the CPU executes itself?<<< Multi user, multi tasking systems crash all the time - the great majority of the time it is inadvertant. Hackers are not going to get through professionally managed systems with the proper security measures and front-end processors to do any damage to critical applications servers without being caught. Saboteurs will have more success physically assaulting computer rooms than to get past fully secured systems, electronically. Having said that, I expect tomorrow to hear of many systems crashes and IS professionals will raise the spector of the Pentium F0 Bug to deflect blame for poorly managed systems and inadvertant mistakes. Any professionally managed installation has security measures against sabotage of any nature - and the Pentium F0 bug is only one of thousands of possible scenarios or means where saboteurs would try to bypass security to mischievously do harm to systems. Any bad guy genius who can get past security to introduce the pentium F0 bug to bring a system down (without detection) could find hundreds of other ways to bring the same system down. In the final analysis, there is no difference in the unauthorized bringing down of a system by means of a virus, introduction of the F0 bug, or by physical assault. In my very humble opinion, Mary