Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[amicus_curious]

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message 
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> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>
> > If it fails early, it gets returned to the store or to the
> > manufacturer for credit.
>
> If your whole computing centre gets compromised because a packet logger
> could be inserted into the router, return to the store is your least
> problem.  Being able to determine possible scope of a security breach is
> certainly important.
You create a whole lot of hypothetical situations, but people buy these 
things at Sam's Club for $35 and they work just fine.  What compromise has 
there ever been that allowed someone to put a "packet logger" into the 
firmware of such a thing?  Who would bother?

Data Centers of any substance use more elaborate equipment, I am sure.  If 
you are fussing around with one of these little routers, you are not running 
any "data centre" of any importance that anyone would even want to bother 
with.