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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:40:09 +0000 Rob Beard wrote: > tom wrote: > > Rob Beard wrote: > >> tom wrote: > >>> It really annoys me that they havent the wit to make a linux > >>> update app. And they're paying MS a fortune to use windows as a > >>> communication method. Richard Heads! > >> Even more annoying when the device itself runs Linux! > >> > >> You'd have thought it would be easy enough to put together a > >> simple application to update it. > >> > >> Rob > >> > >> > > Unless that was part of the patent agreement? > > Tom te tom te tom > > > > Who knows (apart from Microsoft and TomTom), maybe it could be. I > can't see why these devices need fancy programs to update themselves, > why on earth they can't just give you a file to download and dump on > an SD card or onto the device itself I don't know. > > Rob Security through obscurity. The mistaken belief that if they make the process awkward enough then it is automatically a "secure" process. If all you need to do is download a file and dump it on the device, then anyone can check out the contents of the file and reverse engineer it for their own purposes. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html