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Oh definitely, it's more a question of why Microsoft allows any 'driver utility' to have internet access or do anything outside of just configuring the hardwar
by Saris 3mo ago
Oh definitely, it's more a question of why Microsoft allows any 'driver utility' to have internet access or do anything outside of just configuring the hardware.
- darig 3mo ago[dead]
- tremon 3mo ago> why Microsoft allows any 'driver utility' to have internet access Firmware updates for devices are not a thing in your world?
- Saris 3mo agoIt seems like windows update should handle distributing the verified new firmware file if it is also distributing the driver utility to avoid any issues like this post talks about.
- tremon 3mo agoThat would be a good idea actually, but I'm not sure how viable that is within the current Windows Update instrumentation. Allowing local binaries to fetch random URLs through the Windows Update API is no different from them using the HTTP Service unless there's some kind of whitelisting/validation happening there. The alternative would be that Microsoft uses their own Windows Update cdn to host random firmware files that they're not able to verify themselves. Both cases sound like maintenance overhead for Microsoft without benefit to them.
- VorpalWay 3mo agoThere is no reason we need a badly coded vendor control panel to install firmware upgrades though. On Linux https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org/ is a database for vendor firmware, and you use one shared open source took to install upgrades for all devices attached to your system.