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Re:Introducing Ring -3 Rootkits: BIOS rootkit targeting vPro... by mschuster91 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:33AM (#7453454)
Oh, the 4965 generation. I vaguely remember the days of the Linux driver development, there were discussions to open-source the binary blob firmware.

IIRC this was ultimately abandoned due to the possibility of turning the 4965 into a pretty sophisticated SDR. What a shame!

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Re:Introducing Ring -3 Rootkits: BIOS rootkit targeting vPro... by yuhong on Sunday March 23, 2014 @05:17PM (#7455190)
Reminds me of why older Broadcom wireless chips don't have official open source drivers.
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