[Open-graphics] NVIDIA Binary Driver exploit

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:31:07 -0200
"Vinicius Santos" <vininim at gmail.com> wrote:

> There isn't! And that's what I mean: Before having that vunerability
> known, it was all
> about "Binary blobs could be insecure", but now it's a proven fact
> that it is, and it
> takes more than 2 years for a vendor to (probably) fix after the issue
> is reported.
> It's now a real issue that makes OGP even MORE of a solution. It's not
> only about
> hobbist who want to develop hardware and drivers, it's about the freedom to run
> "secure hardware".

99.999% of the users out there dont care about security.
Otherwise we wouldn't have so many worm and spam mail.
And i'm not only talking about windows users.

It's really a minority for whom security is an argument.
The others.. just use a el-cheapo firewall and think
they have done everything they can do and everything
else is bad luck (if they even think that far).

			Attila Kinali

-- 
egp ist vergleichbar mit einem ikea bausatz fuer flugzeugtraeger
			-- reeler in +kaosu