Re: atheros chips dangerous?

In message <20060810130331.X94142@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Barkley Vowk writes:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

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.

I don't think that quite answers his question however. Its not so much a
matter of trusting Sam, but a matter of trusting that Sam had enough
access to the binary objects in question to have eliminated the errors in
them.

Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code.

And it is a matter of trust.

Unless you are willing to stand up can swear that you have never
run a single line of code which you have not inspected and throught
about yourself, then you implicitly have to trust the programmer.

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