"Neal H. Walfield" <[email protected]> writes: > At Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:39:09 +0100, > Paul Hänsch wrote: > > I don't get this point: > > > > ""quote -- > > - 128 GB SSD (this would be the one component that might have to be > > proprietary as I’m not aware of another option) > > -- "" > > Don't trust a hard drive to not modify the data in flight: > http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=5
I've now read that (short) page, but it doesn't say anything to me about “hard drive […] modify the data in flight”. Probably because I'm not expert on hardware hacking. Can you point to, or write, an explanation of what a free-software proponent is expected to learn from the above page? -- \ “The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the | `\ spirit of society and leads to its intellectual | _o__) impoverishment.” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
