Thanks! Because the driver has root permission, it can modify the system. So output by ps and other commands are not reliable.
Now I intend to take the risk, after thinking over pro and con. --- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:36:22 -0800 (PST) > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I download the driver from sourceforge. The site promise nothing. > > You are fair in being paranoid about the drivers or for any other software > for that matter. That > is the advantage of Free Software as it allows for you and many other users > of that software to > delve into the source code and examine it for any security flaws. > > However, that is the ideal situation. A regular user ideally cannot examine > the source code of > every software he/she uses. Thus, the best one can do is to examine the file > I/O and network I/O > when the specific software is in use. In your case, when the driver is in use > you can check the > outgoing network connections and file I/O if anything suspicious is going on. > > I don't remember of the top of my head the commands to check network and file > I/O but I have > read them in the OpenBSD afterboot man page. > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot&sektion=8 > > Good luck, > Amit > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
