[mythtv-users] Uh-oh... pcHDTV slashdotted

[Yan-Fa Li]

Well that's always an issue with Binary, however, once a blob is 
released it stays released and so long as the standard doesn't change 
it's possible to use the old blob and ignore any new firmware with 
cryptocrap additions.

Are you suggesting there are timebombs in the current firmware, surely 
there's some way to test that theory ?

Yan

Dan Lanciani wrote:
> Doug Larrick <doug at ties.org> wrote:
> 
> |Dan Lanciani wrote:
> |> Makes me wonder if they chose the format of the flag to cause problems with
> |> pre-DRM implementations.  I hope there isn't anything in the big binary-only
> |> firmware arrays in the pcHDTV drivers that will be similarly affected...
> |
> |The flag is a single descriptor in the PSIP data.  It really is just a 
> |flag.  Easy to ignore.
> 
> But it might not be easy to ignore if the binary code embeded in the
> drivers (binary for which we do not have the source) looks for it...
> 
> 				Dan Lanciani
> 				ddl at danlan.*com
> 
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