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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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Closed Source Hardware - Clarifications 2004-12-04
anonymous elf
I agree that there are two seperate issues here. Prism cards, I use a Netgear WG511, require a firmware file. Netgear packed it with the installer for windows, and so put it in a .cab file that makes opening it directly with Linux difficult. Add to that the reluctance of the companies to release the...

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