[Open-graphics] NVIDIA Binary Driver exploit

Lance Hanlen lance.hanlen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 17:09:36 EDT 2006


At the risk of sounding naive, I don't think there's anything negative
or cynical about speaking out against a company that forces you to let
people run arbitrary code as root on your computer.

On 10/16/06, Vinicius Santos <vininim at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp
>
> Since we were discussing early about OGP advocay, this might be
> interesting as a proof-of-concept of why binary blobs in kernelland is
> unaceptable for opensource projects that strive for security.
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_Lance


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