Messages in this thread | | | Date | 6 Dec 1999 17:55:33 +0100 | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Linux headed for disaster? |
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root@chaos.analogic.com (Richard B. Johnson) writes:
>If Linux allows binary modules, the end of the world, as we know it, >has arrived. The result will be Trojan and other 'malware' inserted
Oh, then the end has already arrived. Linux already allows binary modules.
They have to be compiled for your kernel release though. But there is no rule that this has to be done by you. Look at the ltmodem.o module from Lucent (which does not run on my Acer 710TE Laptop :-( ).
It depends on the user whether to load a module or not. Not on the vendor.
Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- hps@tanstaafl.de TANSTAAFL! Consulting - Unix, Internet, Security
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