On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:14:30PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said:
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:32:08PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > It often can, though.  You can't really tell if the firmware for your 
> > > > network
> > > > card is using DMA to send away your private data in unaccounted frames.
> > > 
> > > Of course you can.  Adding paranoid fantasies to the debate doesn't
> > > really help much.
> > 
> > Can you?  Would you explain how?  (and no, "I run wireshark in my gateway 
> > and
> > dig through several GiBs of data" doesn't really tell me anything)
> 
> Disregarding standard diagnostic tools doesn't really add to your
> credibility in this.

Ad hominem doesn't really work as a stock replacement for justifiing things.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."


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