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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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An Opening and Motive for Spyware in Drivers 2004-12-08
Anonymous
This is a cool idea for getting even more marketing info on all us internet users. Include info gathering code in the driver for the NIC or wireless card, basically put spyware in the driver. Lexmark already put some on their installation CD for one of their printers (maybe more, just not detected...

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