On 16/06/15 12:18, JeremyBekka C wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>

>     I have a question about the deprecated program hal. We like to
>     stream videos from Amazon.com but we need hal installed in order to
>     make it work. The Hal Debian wiki says that it is being deprecated
>     and it is being replaced by udev (https://wiki.debian.org/hal).
>     Since vdev is being written to replace udev, are there any plans to
>     incorperate hal's functions into vdev or keep maintaining it
>     seperaratly?

>
>
> Do you know what specific functions of hal you need? Hal's
> functionality got split between udisks/udisks2, upower, and udev some
> time ago. Things like device plug state, device properties, and device
> capabilities are now tracked by udev (in /run/udev) and accessed by
> libudev, for example. My goal for vdev is to be compatible with udev,
> so if you can use udev today, you should be able to use vdev when it's
> ready.
>
From what I remember it's flashplayer, and it uses hal to build or get
a GUID based on hardware ID's (ethernet macs, and other h/w identifiers)
which is required for the digital rights management to be able to lock
the content to that particular combination thus preventing MitMing the
content for aka Piracy...



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