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Re: Aperture, security

> Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> Peter Fairbrother wrote (in a message from Monday 17)
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply. I *have* to use X, and was wondering if there was a
>> known way to eliminate that risk.
> 
> Use better designed hardware, like sparc, or macppc. On sparc the
> aperture driver is not used at all, on macppc or sparc64 it only gives
> access to the video card's memory.
> 

Not an option. I have to support all the hardware I can (it's for a secured
OpenBSD-based OS with apps and custom crypto intended to defeat legal
demands for keys (coming soon to the UK), which boots and runs from CD on
macppc and i386. It should "just work" on most hardware). I usually use
Mac's myself, Sparc's are overpriced now IMO.


Ah well. Thanks anyway.


-- Peter Fairbrother

peter@m-o-o-t.org
http://www.m-o-o-t.org