Reverse engineering binary firmware

Graziano Sorbaioli graziano at gnu.org
Thu Jan 15 19:00:47 UTC 2009


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Richard M Stallman ha scritto:
> I think it would be useful to start an organized effort to
> reverse-engineer binary-only firmware.  When the binary is released
> under a free software license, there is no legal obstacle.
> 
> What do you think of this idea?


Agree.
This is the right path to follow imho.


> 
> If it is a good idea, would some of you like to identify a list of
> high priority targets for this activity?
> 
> They should be binary-only firmware programs released under free
> licenses, for important products or product lines.  It would be good
> to have between 5 and 20 items in the list.



One possible item I can identify is the Intel wifi 3945 and similar
adapters.



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