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@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:36:22 -0800 (PST)
Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@xxxxxxxxx> 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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