Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:39:03 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1o=22?= <freebsd4@fadesa.es> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros chips dangerous? Message-ID: <19127.1155231543@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:36:24 %2B0200." <44DB6E98.8010701@fadesa.es>
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In message <44DB6E98.8010701@fadesa.es>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1 o=22?= writes: > Unlike OpenBSD which affirms that they have reverse engineering[3] >the drivers would I be at risk if I use atheros based wireless cards >with FreeBSD? The Atheros driver in FreeBSD is maintained and compiled by Sam Leffler, who has been around since BSD 4.2 in the early eighties sometimes. I trust Sam. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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