Trusting trust
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:43:42PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> No, at least because you would loose one of the benefits of free
> software. For example, I imagine it's quite easy for a compiler to
> add a troyan to the binary - well, only in binaries big enough so that
> noone would ever notice...
ObRhetorical: And there's not a trojan in gcc? *winks*
The 'binary' could be your compiler, notes Ken Thompson. Grep the web
for ``Reflections on Trusting Trust.'' There's a copy at the ACM's site.
It's a good read.
Just making noise. Ignore this.
- chad
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Chad Miller <cmiller@surfsouth.com> URL: http://web.chad.org/
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced".
First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')
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