Re: [rtcweb] H.261

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sat, 23 November 2013 04:24 UTC

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:

> On 11/22/13 20:27, Ron wrote:
>
>> So, now you want people to give Cisco not only the ability to
>> install binary blobs on their machine -- but a root shell to do
>> it as well?  What could possibly go wrong.
>>
>
> It's... uh... um... I'm a bit incredulous.
>
> Look, it's *Cisco*. If they *wanted* to attack you, this would be possibly
> the least worrisome vector.


And of course the binaries would be digitally signed and one could do
verifiable builds.

-Ekr