From: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wiretapping Linux?
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:05 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060517080705.47319.qmail@web51409.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
Hello all,
while I agree with the points made in this discussion that it is harder to
get a backdoor into Linux I'm left wondering about the whole computing
system Linux is running on. Modern network card have enough computing
power to easily run wiretapping that you won't see in the driver code. If
you are concerned about wiretapping, then the large binary blobs of
firmware needed to run your peripherals should be of real concern.
The same is true for the BIOS. Even older CPUs come with a system mode
that exists outside the realm controlled by the OS.
Regards
Joerg
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 8:07 Joerg Pommnitz [this message]
2006-05-17 10:24 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-17 12:02 ` Joerg Pommnitz
2006-05-17 12:16 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-17 13:25 ` Joerg Pommnitz
2006-05-17 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-17 18:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-16 13:24 Marc Perkel
2006-05-16 13:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-16 13:56 ` Marc Perkel
2006-05-16 14:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-05-16 16:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-16 15:05 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-16 15:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-16 16:12 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-16 20:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-16 20:47 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-18 11:25 ` Helge Hafting
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605180741350.4006@chaos.analogic.com>
2006-05-18 12:41 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-18 15:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-16 17:09 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-16 17:27 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-17 0:57 ` Peter Chubb
2006-05-16 20:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-16 21:01 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-17 4:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-17 1:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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