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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 2004-12-07
Mace Moneta
"What's possibly even more disturbing, is that we're talking about a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a third-party vendor."


The firmware files do not run in the host operating system (BSD, Linux, etc....

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