Re: A89: Re: ATTN: The guy who had the "source" of AU.
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Re: A89: Re: ATTN: The guy who had the "source" of AU.
Exactly, and on top of that... I would bet 50% of the masses can't use
it due lack of support. The whole point of open source developement is
to make a program that works on a variety of platforms... which in this
case is all the different versions of the 89. I am one of those people
who is not supported... and there is no fix to happen by the "owner"
anytime soon since he most likely does not have the financial means to
buy every type of 89. This is the whole point of releasing source
code... wether we see the source or not, a virus will come about by
other means. btw, did ti not leave a way to reflash the rom in the event
of such a problem or maybe the flash rom becomes corrupted. Hmm, what
then?
Olle Hedman wrote:
>
> Mark Zavislak wrote:
> > Actually, I do *not* plan on releasing any actual code to this program. I
> > do, however, think that details kept by secrecy are not really secure in
> > the long run. As with any security loophole, the calcs would be better off
> > with some sort of "virus protection" (I use the term loosely) to protect
> > against future programs that may try to damage the calc.
>
> It is no secret.
> All the info needed to do this sofware workaround for the flashprotection, is
> STILL available (and has been for a very long time. almost as long as it has
> been known) at my web page http://alh.dhs.org/ti89/ in the text 89hw.txt.
> If you dont understand the text, you shouldn't tamper with it.
>
> //Olle
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