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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:42:42AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> In the less benign one that "convenient" binary driver that
> you loaded into the kernel would contain a silent security
> vulnerability.  Google for "Sony DRM rootkit".

I think the difference here is that NVIDIA are a little more trusted
than Sony ever was :-)