[Battlemesh] Forced firmware lockdown in EU already passed

[Mitar]

Hi!

Do we have any citable proofs of such cases?


Mitar

> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Henrion <zoobab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Henning Rogge <hrogge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> *sarcasmmodeon*
>>>
>>> Oh my God, we cannot do this! This would enable EVIL hackers to penetrate
>>> the thick firewalls and security mechanisms of our firmware and let it do
>>> horrible things! Firmware must be secret!
>>
>> The perfect trojan horse lays in the firmware of network cards.
>>
>> Some ethernet cards sold on ebay had chinese firmwares duplicating
>> some packets to a special spying server.
>>
> 
> Which is a very good reason why Firmware should be OpenSource.
> 
> Henning Rogge
> 
> 
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