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NVidia bug puts Linux systems at risk
Robert Lemos, 2006-10-17
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NVidia bug puts Linux systems at risk 2006-10-18
Anonymous
Well, this incident just enforces Theo de Raadt's (OpenBSD founder) view about binary blobs being a security issue!

Here's a comment from the exploit...

/*

* "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would

* not help."

* - Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager (NVIDIA Corporation).

*/

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