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From: | amicus_curious |
Subject: | Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar |
Date: | Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:01:18 -0500 |
"Mart van de Wege" <mvdwege_public@myrealbox.com> wrote in message 86skm6bdgk.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan">news:86skm6bdgk.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan...
I don't think that you are sorry in the least. Do you suggest that this theory will first find its way into someone lusting to robotize some kid's PC? Even so how likely is it that the target of this exploit is savvy enough to have combed through the source and implemented his own fix enable by knowing which library version of BusyBox was in use in his $25 router? It would be more probable that he would win the Powerball Lottery twice in a row."amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:Yes, and executable e-mails were once considered to be 'purely theoretical'."Mart van de Wege" <mvdwege_public@myrealbox.com> wrote in message 86wsbic07e.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan">news:86wsbic07e.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan..."amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message 85r61r4nvu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz">news:85r61r4nvu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz..."amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:If it fails early, it gets returned to the store or to the manufacturer for credit.If your whole computing centre gets compromised because a packet loggercould be inserted into the router, return to the store is your leastproblem. Being able to determine possible scope of a security breach iscertainly important.You create a whole lot of hypothetical situations, but people buy these things at Sam's Club for $35 and they work just fine. What compromise has there ever been that allowed someone to put a "packet logger" into the firmware of such a thing? Who would bother?Spammers who like to build botnets out of domestic PCs for example.Do you know of any instance where the botnet was built by compromising the user's router firmware? That is pretty farfetched.I'm sorry, but threat evaluation is just a *tad* more than 'is this being exploited yet?'
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