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Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)

From Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch)
Date 2017-08-23 00:10 +0200
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On 08/22/2017 06:01 PM, Jape Person wrote:
> On 08/22/2017 05:12 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
>> On 22/08/17 15:11, Jape Person wrote:
>>> You have been *very* helpful. You educated / reminded me on why even
>>> testing for exploits isn't necessarily useful when the firmware is not
>>> Open Source, and you told me about the existence of magnetic quick
>>> release USB cables. Time to shop!
>>>
>>> And thank you very much again.
>>
>> I am glad that you found my commentary useful.
>>
>> By the way, I prefer the free software philosophy and term instead of
>> open source, although of course, almost all open source software is free
>> software and vice-versa.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
> 
> Understood. I was just thinking of it from the standpoint of what we can
> see, not from the standpoint of the philosophy as to why we can see it
> or what we can do with it. But you're right. the philosophy is always
> important.
> 
> I'd love to run into a few folks here who care about such things.
> Conversations in this region have a tendency to get really boring,
> really quickly. The only things most people around here are willing to
> discuss are physical trivialities and things I'm reasonably certain
> don't exist.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Friends don't let friends eat friends.
> 
> JP
> 
> 
Heh. Ambiguity is my middle name. By "here" and "this region" above, I'm 
referring to physical location. There are lots of interesting folks in 
this "here".

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Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 04:50 +0200
  Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-22 06:10 +0200
    Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 15:40 +0200
      Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-22 17:30 +0200
        Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 18:20 +0200
          Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 21:10 +0200
        Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 19:20 +0200
          Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 19:40 +0200
            Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 19:50 +0200
              Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-08-22 20:10 +0200
            Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-08-22 20:00 +0200
          Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-08-22 20:00 +0200
          Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-22 20:10 +0200
            Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 20:50 +0200
              Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-22 22:20 +0200
                Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 23:20 +0200
                Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-23 00:10 +0200
                Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless  keyboard in stretch) Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-23 00:10 +0200
          Re: Wireless devices and cryptography in practice (Was: USB wireless keyboard in stretch) Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-08-22 23:40 +0200
  Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-08-22 11:20 +0200
    Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 15:50 +0200
  Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2017-08-22 12:30 +0200
    Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-22 12:30 +0200
      Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 14:40 +0200
    Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-23 00:40 +0200
      Re: USB wireless keyboard in stretch Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-23 00:40 +0200

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