Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:10:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1o=22?= <freebsd4@fadesa.es> Subject: Re: atheros chips dangerous? Message-ID: <20060810130331.X94142@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <19127.1155231543@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. I don't think that quite answers his question however. Its not so much a matter of trusting Sam, but a matter of trusting that Sam had enough access to the binary objects in question to have eliminated the errors in them. While I see that his name is in the copyright notice on the contrib code, I don't see anything to indicate that most of the code isn't shared between most platforms. So there might be a good chance that whatever bugs affect the OsX drivers, also affect the freebsd ones. That being said, I do trust Sam, and code written by Sam. I don't know however if this blob of code I'm loading was actually written by Sam, or just wrapped to work on freebsd by Sam.home | help
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