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In my perspective, binary drives are a matter of choice, you can use them, but you dont have to, if you dont want to, whereas the random numbers generation is u
by tachion 13y ago
In my perspective, binary drives are a matter of choice, you can use them, but you dont have to, if you dont want to, whereas the random numbers generation is used everywhere in the OS, and you cant just decide to not to use it - that's a huge difference, what makes this comparison bad.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoCan't you though? We're really talking about defaults here. If you don't want to use the hardware RNG, you can always disable it in either the BIOS or the OS. Or use hardware that doesn't have one. The trouble is for the common user who doesn't know anything about any of this and is just going to take the defaults for everything, who is exactly the sort of person who is going to take the binary driver to "just make it work" and then be exposed to any vulnerabilities it may contain. You have to make the defaults secure because they're what most people will use. It doesn't matter that you can change it if most people never do.