First of all, it is only usable on computers which even boot CD's from the BIOS. If the CD boot option is disabled, it's not much use.
IMHO that option has been enabled by default for years now. If it isn't on your older PC, somebody at the bank's helpline will surely be able to walk you through the process of enabling it.
Even worse is when add/spyware gets between the boot process on such a PC. The PC boots the harddisk, the spyware detects the Knoppix Banking CD, then it puts itself in memory and boots the CD.
Suuure. Do you have any idea how much work it would be to implement that? Surely out of the scope of any trojan/spyware. Much easier ways of stealing someone's bank infos.
The basic idea is to hook it to a surround receiver, and if a DD sound bitstream is being sent out (like from a game), it aught to be decoded in the receiver... Right? Is there any such thing that exists?
Dude, you really should've read the article.
The nVidia Soundstorm APU is actually the ONLY available product capable of encoding a digital (AC3) surround data stream in real time. And since nVidia apparently doesn't want to incorporate Soundstorm in one of their future chipsets, it looks like we're out of luck. For me, that's a reason to stick with my outdated Athlon XP system and my Soundstorm equipped ASUS motherboard for the time being. I hope nVidia or some other manufacturer will get a clue in the near future and offer a decent PCI sound card with that capability.
Of course, if all you want is a digital output (optical or electrical) on your soundcard, that's pretty easy. Most modern cards have them and should work just fine with Linux. You just won't get real-time encoded AC3 over them.
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First of all, it is only usable on computers which even boot CD's from the BIOS. If the CD boot option is disabled, it's not much use.
IMHO that option has been enabled by default for years now. If it isn't on your older PC, somebody at the bank's helpline will surely be able to walk you through the process of enabling it.
Even worse is when add/spyware gets between the boot process on such a PC. The PC boots the harddisk, the spyware detects the Knoppix Banking CD, then it puts itself in memory and boots the CD.
Suuure. Do you have any idea how much work it would be to implement that? Surely out of the scope of any trojan/spyware. Much easier ways of stealing someone's bank infos.
Sure. By the way, do you know any software that does this?
The basic idea is to hook it to a surround receiver, and if a DD sound bitstream is being sent out (like from a game), it aught to be decoded in the receiver... Right? Is there any such thing that exists?
Dude, you really should've read the article.
The nVidia Soundstorm APU is actually the ONLY available product capable of encoding a digital (AC3) surround data stream in real time. And since nVidia apparently doesn't want to incorporate Soundstorm in one of their future chipsets, it looks like we're out of luck. For me, that's a reason to stick with my outdated Athlon XP system and my Soundstorm equipped ASUS motherboard for the time being. I hope nVidia or some other manufacturer will get a clue in the near future and offer a decent PCI sound card with that capability.
Of course, if all you want is a digital output (optical or electrical) on your soundcard, that's pretty easy. Most modern cards have them and should work just fine with Linux. You just won't get real-time encoded AC3 over them.