Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
arstechnica.com
Chipmaker has until Friday to comply or see its crown-jewel source code released.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/185080

The updated demands:

    So, NVIDIA, the choice is yours! Either:

    –Officially make current and all future drivers for all cards open source, while keeping the Verilog and chipset trade secrets... well, secret

    OR

    –Not make the drivers open source, making us release the entire silicon chip files so that everyone not only knows your driver's secrets, but also your most closely-guarded trade secrets for graphics and computer chipsets too!

    YOU HAVE UNTIL FRIDAY, YOU DECIDE!

Will this be the only way to achieve decent hardware support cross-platform? Can’t wait for someone to take AMD/Intel managers hostage ;-)

BTW not sure why these people are called cyber-criminals. Sounds like cyber-heroes to me… I mean i don’t agree with their motivation (cryptocurrency mining) but they’re doing what government regulations should have done a long time ago, which is preventing hardware manufacturers from fucking up life for everyone. (or at least they’re trying)