Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Device Driver | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:31:23 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl> SAID:
> > I take it then that you never use a hard drive in any of your systems on > > the grounds that it contains non-open source firmware which may affect > > the security of your system? ;) Tell me, what do you use to store all > > those Linux applications on? > > Your ATA drive can't tell you kernel what to do. I've seen some nice > modules that do very nasty things to your system, and I was suprised that > it was even possible. > > For my own system : I don't care. But I can imagine that there are people > out there that do care about these kind of issues.
Then let _them_ worry about it. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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