On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 08:41:22PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:54:15 +0100, you wrote: > >How important for system's security is having system installed from self > >compiled packages? Some time ago a friend asked me, how many of packacges do I > >have compiled by me, and he expected I say him "almost all". What do you think > >about it? > > Well, do you check all sources (including the kernel) that you compile > for mailicious code? If you don't, then you might have a trojan even > from your self-compiled programs. > > I'd blindly trust all "official" Debian packages since the maintainers > are well-known over the net. I don't blindly trust pgp or ssh or gnupg, for obvious reasons. -- Show me the code or get out of my way.
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