I was actually thinking of one of the black hat videos I saw last year,
where they discussed bypassing CPU privileged mode prior to the OS loading.
But the concept is the same. But who says the instructions would have to be
x86 ? They don't have to be.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
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>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Carl Krieder <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> You seriously think the ROM is trying to execute x86 code out of LSN 0????
>>
>
> It doesn't know it's x86... ;)  It tries to excute whatever it see's..
>
> There was a very cool talk at 32nd Chaos Communication Congress this year:
>
> https://media.ccc.de/c/32c3
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> Where in the middle, they took a jpg and ran it thru the 8051 de-compiler
> and got good 8051 assembly...
>
> https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7189-key-logger_video_mouse
>
> Regards,
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