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betaby • today at 12:35 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

That's interesting. That means there are fewer checks for hardware than software?


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soulofmischief • today at 1:20 AM

Hardware is more amenable to static analysis than running programs which may receive an arbitrary number of inputs and express an arbitrary number of possible intermediate states.

I am interested in how firmware is treated, since perhaps in the case of these old machines it's small enough to be analyzable or at least cloned bit-for-bit.