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From: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
To: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.aau.dk>
Cc: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:42:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtkq2253.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43452134.4010504@cs.aau.dk> (Emmanuel Fleury's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:05:56 +0200")

Emmanuel Fleury writes:

> Well, I'm really sorry to play the Devil Advocate once time more, but as
> far as I know all these DSL companies have big secrets because of
> weaknesses in their security. Being hacked at the Internet level is one
> thing, being hacked at the DSLAM level means a lot. Try to imagine if
> anybody could upload to you his own modified kernel, this means that you
> can tape all the internet traffic, all the phone calls, all the TV
> programs that you are looking at, and also probably having an easy way
> in to your local network (wired and wifi).

Lousy security is not an excuse to violate contract or copyright law.

Michael Poole

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-05 11:13 freebox possible GPL violation Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 11:22 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 11:27   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:37     ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 11:59       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 12:02         ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 12:07           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 12:29             ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 12:45               ` Michael Poole
2005-10-05 17:11               ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-06  0:07               ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06  0:49                 ` David Lang
2005-10-06  1:12                   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-06  2:25                     ` David Lang
2005-10-06  9:20                   ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06  9:51                     ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06  9:53                       ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 11:39                       ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 13:05                         ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 13:42                           ` Michael Poole [this message]
2005-10-06 14:19                           ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 20:15                       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-11  2:27             ` David Schwartz
2005-10-11 10:48               ` Graham Murray
2005-10-05 12:15           ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-10-05 11:45     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-05 11:59       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:50 ` Emmanuel Fleury
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-06 23:26 Pierre Michon
2005-10-06 12:01 Pierre Michon
2005-10-06 13:06 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 13:40   ` Michael Poole
2005-10-06 14:48     ` Matan Peled
2005-10-05 17:57 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 16:06 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 16:47 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 15:18 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 15:49 ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-10-05 15:12 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 15:08 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 10:08 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 10:18 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05  8:47 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05  9:42 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-15  9:40 ` Loic Dachary
2005-10-19 17:58   ` Pierre Michon
2005-10-20 15:29     ` Loic Dachary

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