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Hello all, while I agree with the points made in this discussion that it is harder to get a backdoor into Linux I'm left wondering about the whole computing system Linux is running on. Modern network card have enough computing power to easily run wiretapping that you won't see in the driver code. If you are concerned about wiretapping, then the large binary blobs of firmware needed to run your peripherals should be of real concern. The same is true for the BIOS. Even older CPUs come with a system mode that exists outside the realm controlled by the OS. Regards Joerg ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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