On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:03:45AM +0200, Karl Sj?dahl - dunceor wrote:
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> This is not a blob in the sense that it could be potentially dangerous
> since the firmware only runs on the card and nothing of that is run on
> your computer. All network cards have firmware, some you can flash
> yourself and some is resident in ROM on the card (e.g you can not
> change it or even read it).

Your network card IS in your computer.
If your network card can access memory (and it _must_ be able to, or it 
would be mostly useless), then it _is_ potentially dangerous.  It could
probably fairly easily dump anything in RAM over the network to some
other machine.

eric