[Open-graphics] NVIDIA Binary Driver exploit

[Lance Hanlen]

On 10/16/06, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 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

And I'm one of the worst for that, but you have to concede the
importance of having a choice in this instance.

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


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_Lance