On Monday 22 August 2005 16.08, W. Borgert wrote:
[...]
> This is a really nice idea: A DD with a strange sense of humour
> could
[...]
If we're starting to worry about what kind of damage a DD can do to the
world by providing some bogus uploads, let's just not. Any DD can cause
code to be executed as root on a potentially very big number of machines
world wide, source-only uploads or not, and there are many ways to
obfuscate malicious code within a big, complex application.
No technical measures will ever help here, really [1]. That's why we have
NM and don't maintain the source code of your packages in Wiki-style...
cheers
-- vbi
[1] granted, *if ever* somebody tried something, technical measures can make
forensics and tracking the offender harder or easier.
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