This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:29:20AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > - code uploaded into another cpu (a device cpu, not a SMP cpu of some > > > kind) does not run in the same memory space, and can thus not impact > > > the main software running on the host CPU. > > > > Impacting other software has very little to do with the > > desirability of freedom of software. > > It often can, though. You can't really tell if the firmware for your network > card is using DMA to send away your private data in unaccounted frames. Of course you can. Adding paranoid fantasies to the debate doesn't really help much. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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