From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932139AbWEQIHH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 04:07:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932470AbWEQIHH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 04:07:07 -0400 Received: from web51409.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.188]:3770 "HELO web51409.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932455AbWEQIHG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 04:07:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Hzc9+YQX6I2NuiNsgG92JhXZVeu57htyDENn9aQvxAIj+rYddHgbmrQ9ynlDTbnZwMDhYBbs3LK3ydPKmk4DwKYsSMgjU0KH1OjyD6ZscYd8x0QlC3DvfdNKn/dJIW8WV85/Dqw8ZkHshRQOGLSB0fBrTOwX4KfhFi/JbBzru6c= ; Message-ID: <20060517080705.47319.qmail@web51409.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:07:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Pommnitz Subject: Re: Wiretapping Linux? To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de