Re: atheros chips dangerous?

In message <44DB6E98.8010701@xxxxxxxxx>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1
o=22?= writes:

Unlike OpenBSD which affirms that they have reverse engineering[3]
the drivers would I be at risk if I use atheros based wireless cards
with FreeBSD?

The Atheros driver in FreeBSD is maintained and compiled by Sam Leffler,
who has been around since BSD 4.2 in the early eighties sometimes.

I trust Sam.

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