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| ewaller:
--- Quote from: tv84 on December 06, 2018, 04:19:48 pm ---I could answer yes but, since I'm not a TPM, you would have to trust me... Do you? --- End quote --- Nothing personal, but not fully. But enough to try your scripts, especially if they make no permanent changes. Did I miss something that I should have read? That collection of ADS scripts that open port 10101 kind of popped up out of no where -- and seem like a good approach. But I really could not discern that they make no permanent changes. Have I been asking a question that has been asked and answered about whether these scripts make any stored changes? |
| vt100:
--- Quote from: ewaller on December 06, 2018, 04:40:59 pm --- Nothing personal, but not fully. But enough to try your scripts, especially if they make no permanent changes. --- End quote --- He's a huge international criminal wanted by the FBI and Interpol. Trust me, you're reading it here on the internet, so, it must be true, right? :) Since you can always flash the original firmware back on your scope, what are you worried about? Even if he was a notorious ransomware bitcoin criminal, what's the worst that happens? you flash your old firmware back on the box and you're none the worse for wear. sheesh. |
| ewaller:
--- Quote from: vt100 on December 07, 2018, 01:25:48 am ---He's a huge international criminal wanted by the FBI and Interpol. Trust me, you're reading it here on the internet, so, it must be true, right? :) --- End quote --- I trust no code downloaded from the internet -- unless things are signed with gpg keys and there is a chain of trust from me to the person who posted the code, or if it is on a site with a trusted certificate of an organization I consider reputable. Lacking those, I want to at least be able to read the source code. And, in no way is this indented to besmirch anyone -- especially not as a new member of a forum -- and certainly not trying to insult a respected member of the said forum. --- Quote ---Since you can always flash the original firmware back on your scope, what are you worried about? --- End quote --- to be honest, I had not even considered rolling back. Good point. --- Quote ---Even if he was a notorious ransomware bitcoin criminal, what's the worst that happens? you flash your old firmware back on the box and you're none the worse for wear. --- End quote --- Really? It seems a motivation to perform this seems to be to enable features in the scope that were not enabled out of the box -- including features that cannot be enabled through the licence mechanism of the scope GUI. Clearly these persist after rolling back to the old firmware. For example, all 4 channel scopes use the same OS image, regardless of whether they are 100 or 200 MHz instruments. Loading the modified version, or rolling it back does not impact whether it is a 100 or 200 MHz instrument -- there are other steps that need be done that do persist. Same is true for the installed licences. If something were to corrupt things in this persistent storage, for whatever reason, rolling back the OS will not fix things. What else is in that storage? Calibration factors? Serial numbers? FPGA Firmware? --- Quote ---sheesh. --- End quote --- Edit: But, I probably will use the ADS files that they had published. I think the risk is low to modest; certainly if I accept the assertion that these script does nothing but open a root port on 10101 that is transient. |
| vtwin@cox.net:
a healthy amount of skepticism is always warranted on a public forum. I would be more concerned if I were dealing with someone without a track record of engaging in very technical discussions and assisting people in the forum. tv84's bona fides are well established here, he's been a huge help to me (both publicly and privately) and I've never had a concern or encountered an issue running anything he's provided. |
| BillB:
From what I hear, tv84 leaves the toilet seat up, and drinks directly out of the milk carton, too! >:( Seriously, I've executed most of what he's generated on my equipment and so far nothing nefarious, yet. ^-^ |
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