E3B - press release regarding potential software problems

[Rob]

I think it goes something along the lines of.

Elbox made USB drivers for the Spider card which work with the Poseidon USB stack.  Chris Hodges confirmed the existance of malicious code in the Elbox driver, which some other guy found by reverse engineering the device.
According to Elbox this code would only become active if the drivers were hacked and pirated.

A big argument ensued and Chris Hodges decided to limit his potential customer base by cutting Elbox users out of the deal.

Now Elbox have allegedly decided to help Chris in his mission not to make money from Poseidon by stopping other people's USB hardware working when the have Elbox's drivers on their system.

Disclaimer.

"This may or may not be an accurate representaion of what really went on."

[Rob]

Okay I changed my post to reflect that.  Would you ever reconsider supporting Elbox hardware, for the sake of Amiga users.

Would I be able to use Poseidon with Amithlon if get it registered.

[Rob]

@AmiGR

Or if any random code in the system accidentally jumped there, or if something in the system corrupted the driver enough to execute the code, or, or, or, or, AmigaOS is a system without any Memory Protection, these are scenarios entirely possible to happen. The "only if the driver is cracked" stuff is a wish, not reality.

Did this ever happen to anyone?  Didn't Elbox remove the code due to public pressure anyway.