Reverse engineering binary firmware
Graziano Sorbaioli
graziano at gnu.org
Thu Jan 15 19:00:47 UTC 2009
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Richard M Stallman ha scritto:
> I think it would be useful to start an organized effort to
> reverse-engineer binary-only firmware. When the binary is released
> under a free software license, there is no legal obstacle.
>
> What do you think of this idea?
Agree.
This is the right path to follow imho.
>
> If it is a good idea, would some of you like to identify a list of
> high priority targets for this activity?
>
> They should be binary-only firmware programs released under free
> licenses, for important products or product lines. It would be good
> to have between 5 and 20 items in the list.
One possible item I can identify is the Intel wifi 3945 and similar
adapters.
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Graziano Sorbaioli -- www.sorbaioli.org
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