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Negative Rings in Intel Architecture (medium.com/swlh)
3 points by hypeatei 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I found out about these through CRD's video about the horrors of HPs Daystarter, which uses ring -1 to hijack the windows boot process and display its own stuff instead of the boot screen. (https://youtu.be/ssob-7sGVWs)




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