On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:45:58PM -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
Well we all know that having complete control over one's own computer is far too dangerous. Obviously, it would be best if computers, operating systems, and application software had proprietary back-doors that would enable the secret police to arbitrarily monitor the all goes on in the suspicious and dark recesses of memory and the CPU.
If there's nasty Nagscab living on your motherboard, you might as well use it for something constructive: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6633 (Of course the stuff might contain undocumented "features", so only a fool would rely it to conform to specs, all the time). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]