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From: Jolly Roger on 17 Mar 2010 20:33
In article <i0wjf91vl808.1dfth9e5rs641$.dlg(a)40tude.net>,
Jerry Lenstein <jsteineritsfake(a)email.net> wrote:

> Why does my graphics card show as Ethernet card? This same thing
> happened on other computers.

Because that computer uses the NVIDIA MCP79-1, which includes a Gigabit
Ethernet controller. Simple as that.

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From: Jolly Roger on 17 Mar 2010 20:35
In article <i0wjf91vl808.1dfth9e5rs641$.dlg(a)40tude.net>,
Jerry Lenstein <jsteineritsfake(a)email.net> wrote:

> Is there a problem here?

Yes. Your friend is reading log messages he doesn't understand, and is
making wild assumptions about what is going on as a result.

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From: Jolly Roger on 17 Mar 2010 20:36
In article <170320101623225561%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> why would anyone not want it to check time automatically?

One word: paranoia

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From: Jolly Roger on 17 Mar 2010 20:36
In article <170320101623225561%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> nvidia ethernet? that's a new one.

Not really...

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From: Doug Anderson on 17 Mar 2010 21:01
Jerry Lenstein <jsteineritsfake(a)email.net> writes:

(snip)

> Is there a problem here?

If I understand your message, your friend has no evidence that
anything funny is going on. He's reading a bunch of log messages he
doesn't understand, on an operating system that he hasn't studied the
internals of, and is assuming they indicate a problem.

This seems to me like the moral equivalent of not undersanding how
electronics works, opening up your television, and assuming that every
piece of electronics you can't identify by sight might be a bug
planted to listen to your living room conversation and to monitor your
tv viewing.

Proving that this is _wrong_ is a lot of work, since it involves

a) finding someone sufficiently expert to identify all the parts (this
probably takes more expertise than most service techs have),

b) having this expert explain to this person who is ignorant of
electronics and who is suspicious of experts what all the parts are
for.

c) convincing this person that none of the parts have been replaced
with parts that _look_ the same, but secretly have some extra spying
capability.

I can't imagine anyone who would really be up for this task, so it is
no wonder he has never been convinced before.


Remind him: the only completely secure computer is turned off, in a
locked room with no connections to the outside world. Now what is
there on his computer of enough interest so that someone would decide
to target him specifically? And if he thinks he isn't being targeted
specifically, how come these supposed security problems haven't become
better known already? [Alright - now I'm being stupid. If he's that
paranoid, he isn't going to hesitate to suspect a conspiracy of the
Apple-loving left-leaning liberal press.]
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