Bah. A peripheral, if it has DMA capability, can do just about as much
damage as joe random LKM.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Martin Husemann wrote:

> > I fail to see why lkms are less secure than loading
> > from the filesystem other than the supposed 'better' authentication done
> > in userland.
> 
> LKMs can do anything to the whole system. Bad firmware downloaded to a
> peripheral may be far more restricted (depending on the device, of course).
> 
> Martin
>