Re: how can I trust the driver
Thanks! Because the driver has root permission, it can modify the system. So output by ps and
other commands are not reliable.
Now I intend to take the risk, after thinking over pro and con.
--- Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:36:22 -0800 (PST)
> Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I download the driver from sourceforge. The site promise nothing.
>
> You are fair in being paranoid about the drivers or for any other software for that matter. That
> is the advantage of Free Software as it allows for you and many other users of that software to
> delve into the source code and examine it for any security flaws.
>
> However, that is the ideal situation. A regular user ideally cannot examine the source code of
> every software he/she uses. Thus, the best one can do is to examine the file I/O and network I/O
> when the specific software is in use. In your case, when the driver is in use you can check the
> outgoing network connections and file I/O if anything suspicious is going on.
>
> I don't remember of the top of my head the commands to check network and file I/O but I have
> read them in the OpenBSD afterboot man page.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot&sektion=8
>
> Good luck,
> Amit
>
>
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