2009/10/23 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:53 +0100 > Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Don't forget to mention the more paranoid hand-waving about removing >> RAM chips at runtime with liquid nitrogen after going into suspend and >> hax0ring. I think there will be more upstream discussion anyway. > > I'm sorry but this argument makes no sense whatsoever. > > Claiming that a feature should not be enabled because someone is talking > about a mythical attack that is waaay outside the scope of what a > technology wants to protect is not solid reasoning, it's fear mongering > instead. All the same, it was disappointing news to me to read that Intel are even pushing stuff that leverages binary blobs with no source code. There would be nothing to fear and no need for fear mongering if it was an open blob. It would make the whole argument moot. -- Christopher Brown _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
