Comment on Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines

• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even if you write assembly code straight out like a total hacker, it’s still a text file. Literally jump 0x12345 is text. And if it’s just a few kilobits long, then it’s a simple text file yes. Got anything else to ad? Specially if the file actually doesn’t work and the system made to run it “windows” is such shit that every copy of it got halted.

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  • MetaCubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes and at the end of the day it’s all just binary getting dumped into a cache and processed by the CPU. The point is that the intent of the file matters and while they do both hold text, the intent, purpose, and handling of the kernel mode/ring 0 driver is much different than a “simple text file”

    So different in fact, that as another user pointed out, it has happened to Linux too

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