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a binary driver blob can do a better job at backdooring. or even dare to say, the hardware, network card, may have already had one built into it at the factory.
by peterbotond 16y ago
a binary driver blob can do a better job at backdooring. or even dare to say, the hardware, network card, may have already had one built into it at the factory. i vote for a mostly fudd value of this info.
- sedachv 16y agoWhich is why OpenBSD does not come with any binary drivers.
- there 16y agobut it (and every other operating system) still has drivers for network cards that use binary, closed-source firmware that operates on the network card's own processor. which can be backdoored, and would then be impossible to detect from the operating system. http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/11/21/Presentation-at-Hack.lu-:-Reversing-the-Broacom-NetExtreme-s-firmware http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/11/2...