7 Dec
2016
7 Dec
'16
9:35 p.m.
On 07.12.2016 01:36, Duncan Guthrie wrote:
if some flaw was exploited in the various nasty proprietary bits that make up the Pi, much of the network might be compromised - due to large similarities across the different models, this would affect considerable numbers of devices. So using many different computer models with a large variety of operating systems is ideal for the network as a whole.
Yes, there proprietary parts in the firmware, but also this firmware is free and open source. And there are a lot of people who keep care on it.
It's especially very easy to rewrite the boot partition.
Regards,