Hey! Not fair! I spend a week out of here and you guys already go on
conspiracy theories without me? =P
LOL
Ok, seriously now, this is the kind of thing that makes me think "free
software only, free software only!". Lol. Even so, and as this is an example
of, free software does not mean that there are no dangers. We should still
keep our eyes open and question EVERYTHING, especially the things we want to
trust the more (the more we question, the more we can trust).
Unfortunately this is more of an example that when you go big with the big
guys, you have to play by their rules. Linus was never a free software
activist, but what we see here could (read it COULD! just COULD!) be
interpreted as political/social pressure behind the scenes on him to make
linux not more safe than absolutely necessary for people to still use it.
Like... let them think they are free because they use Linux, but let us still
keep our power over them. That kind of thing, you know?
Anyway, I would thank WWWYZZERDD for bringing this up and Lembas and Loyd for
making me rest a little bit with those infos ;)
Still, for the people who run or are involved in Linux-Libre, a question: how
hard would it be to remove RdRand completely?
