Finding Hardware Bugs Computerphile

Summary

Mike talks through a binary search With reports about doctored server motherboards, Dr Steve Bagley on what's to be gained by adding chips to a motherboard. More 6502: eater.net/6502 Support these videos on Patreon: patreon.com/beneater or eater.net/support ... RISC processors kept things simple, but when do you need to make your Prehistoric WiFi? Converting bits into audio and broadcasting them via radio - Dr Aaron Jackson demos packet radio. We use undo daily, but have you thought about what goes into making a functional undo in a program? Dr Steve Bagley takes us ... Why can't floating point do money? It's a brilliant solution for speed of calculations in the computer, but how and why does moving ... An oldie but a goodie, Dr Mike Pound revisits the Log-Jam attack. Original Log Jam paper: bit.ly/C_LogJamPaper Thanks to ... Spectre refers to a whole family of potential weaknesses of which Meltdown is just one. Dr Steve Bagley talks about CPU ... The Bit Blit algorithm dates back to Xerox PARC, but was famously used to sell the Amiga home computer among others. Dr Steve ... Denial of service usually relies on a flood of data. Slow Loris takes a more elegant approach, and almost bores a server to death. Making yourself the all-powerful "Root" super-user on a computer using a buffer overflow attack. Assistant Professor Dr Mike ...