Closed Source Hardware

Closed Source Hardware
Jason Miller, 2004-12-01

Trust with hardware vendors for open source systems is becoming a one-way street, where in exchange for support they offer a closed source binary solution with no provision to audit security.

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Re: An Opening and Motive for Spyware in Drivers 2007-01-08
Anonymous

Like Windows for example :-)

That's why we use Open SOURCE, if you have any such suspicions, check the source code. You can't do that with Windows drivers.

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Link to this comment: http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/columns/281/34244#34244

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