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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:22:52
Message-Id: oam46q$is4$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing hardware via WINE ? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 2017-03-19, tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > yes...no chance.
4 > Linux is insecure...you know.
5 > It makes it possible to spy the firmware and decrypt it on
6 > the way to the charger.
7 >
8 > Windows is much more secure.
9
10 Wow. It's actually much easier to grab serial data on Windows (using
11 sysinternals 'portmon') than it is on Linux (you can do it with
12 strace, but it's not easy).
13
14 > Earth is flat and there was no landing on the moon.
15 >
16 > I believe in Santa Claus.
17
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19 Grant