Le lundi 16 octobre 2006 à 23:36 +0200, Attila Kinali a écrit : > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:31:07 -0200 > "Vinicius Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. You're right, but about getting more exposure for OGP it's just here an opportunity. That don't mean that one has to focus on security, neither to wake-up the end-user. It's just a good pretext to speak to the community of developer. Maybe it's a little bit to soon, but this issue with Nvidia will reload the topic about the specification and so on. Folks from the kernel should not appreciate this security issue which they can't control, hence, an OGC will seem to be the only way. In the end, distros should not feel right in their shoes because they're the first to receive the complaint from their user-base and because they also have the need of this driver indeed. Here again, an OGC will seem to be the only way. > > 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 >
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