-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 May 2002 6:50 am, civileme wrote:
> As long as users buy hardware and accept binary-only drivers, linux > is as vulnerable to the installation of spyware as any other system. > Most likely it will be a winmodem driver, but it coud be a video card > or it may already have been a high-level sound card. The only piece of hardware I have which has a binary-only driver is the Alcatel Speed Touch USB (with the notorious mgmt.o) and, for 18 months, that was the only ADSL modem supplied in the UK. So, sometimes, there's no choice :/ Still, things are looking up, as there's now a 'wires only' service which has opened up the market to all sorts of device; I note that Fujitsu has agreed to make its driver open source: http://www.ftel.co.uk/products/fdx310_faqs.html#linux Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE842Q8Cv59vFiSU4YRAlyvAJ4kVM8kp+WH5z8HzdR3Gbv64bntFQCfbmQH z6mfi5RTTM5ZXN9ohTrHIWU= =lNga -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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