Re: [LUG] interesting opening to frost widgets and Gillette a market?

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Since they are all closed source, who'd know?

W2K was already found to have overflows in the IRDA code, which
some meters might use, it was tripped accidentally by an
opensource developer trying to interoperate.

Hopefully the device itself enforces it's own protocol so it
doesn't become a vector for the virus. But these days most
things are reprogrammable. What the Open Source groups are doing
to SMC wireless access points should make SMC blush at how
little they put into the boxes in the first place! Hopefully
medical devices are equally hard to reprogram "silently" - the
SMC box requires administrator authentication to reprogram it
for example.

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