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7 Sep 2024 05:09:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 23 Oct 2008 21:34:32
Message: <49012628@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:15:04 -0200, nemesis wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, playing dirty, huh?  Is it just the case of the 3D video cards or
>> also other kinds of hardware?...
> 
> Divio is one that I've had to deal with; they manufacture (or
> manufactured) the CCD chip in some of the older Logitech Quickcams.  I
> happen to own one of those.
> 
> Divio refuses to open the spec, so the only Linux driver effort (which is
> now dead, AFAIK) is a development of the 'nw802' and 'nw8xx' drivers done
> entirely through reverse engineering using a USB sniffer.

I read a blog about someone trying to reverse engineer the iPhone USB
protocol with a USB sniffer. They figured out a few basic things, then
noticed most of the interesting stuff was ENCRYPTED, and the project got
into a halt.


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