Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
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       "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>,
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       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Maw, 2005-12-13 at 10:44 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> At least for (certified) ISDN stacks any change on the source (including
> trivial bug fixes) invalidates any official certification AFAIK

This was abolished in most of the countries that had such rules. Several
reasons including competition but above all the national security card.
If a bad software stack could take out the phone exchange so could
someone planning a bomb attack who wanted to kill phone service.

Except in .de it seems the telco's found it hard to justify after that
issue was raised

Alan

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