ikir wrote:
I don't understand this caos.... The code was only dangerous for cracker, not for normal user..... it was a protection from other companies.....
I agree with Elbox in this point.
The code doesn`t stop anyone reverse engineering their drivers,( which according to Elbox is why they put the "protection code" in ).
It only stops the average user trying to force Elbox`s drivers to work with other cards.
Why didn`t they just use a simple error message or requester saying it only works with a Spider?
As for the code being dangerous ONLY to crackers..
bollocks..
Any virus or buggy/badly coded app could write into the memory used by the driver. Overwrite the driver at a certain location and the RDB code is triggered. OK, the posibility of that happening is VERY small, but it`s still a posibility.
As to your view that Elbox was right to do this..
1. Putting destructive code into a program and executing it without users constent is illegal in Europe..even for "copy protection". As the saying goes "Two wrongs don`t make a right"
2. Elbox first denied any such code existed, saying it was a FUD campaign against them.
3. Elbox later admit to the code, but still don`t apologise or even recognise what they did was illegal. Instead, they said the code was removed because their was no/little point to it since it became public knowledge !
( I won`t even start on how they screwed the P96 guys + several others)
If you want to carry on supporting a company with morals like this, then fine, it`s your money, and it`s your choice.
I was seriously thinking of getting a mediator for either my 4000 or my trusty old 1200, but since this whole can of worms has opened up, I`ll be saving my money for either an A1 or PegasOS.
