On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:48:54 -0200 > André Nunes Batista <andrenbati...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > >> phone users. But even in the case of traditional pc's, many people rely >> on proprietary BIOS or proprietary firmware for special devices or >> cards. > > I'm never really sure why people have such a hard time with that - even > without them, you're still relying on proprietary logic in hardware. If > you're really concerned that there could be something nasty in the BIOS > or firmware, you shouldn't use any non-open hardware. And for that > matter, even if you've seen the hardware specs, who says the > manufactured part you buy really follows them exactly, and doesn't have > a backdoor? >
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103470457057356043365/posts/9fyh5R9v2Ga If you believe him, I wouldn't be so flippent about this. There are also IPMI issues (I think there's a Defcon talk on it) ther you'll never be able to do anything to fix because the hardware is closed. > You have to trust someone, somewhere. You shouldn't /have/ to. That you currently do need to trust someone is probably an issue. I'm not as far as Stallman for F/OSS... until companies can't keep up with security issues, then they've shown they can't handle responsible updates and need to give up their IP that people have purchased with good faith. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAH_OBicSh-3VQV3ChSxZ9zA7O78WJa=+pgvphga7lyulg3r...@mail.gmail.com
