From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 05:47:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A901110656C1 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:47:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-313.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-313.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 755218FC1D for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:47:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 17577 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jun 2009 05:47:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy6.bluehost.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2009 05:47:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=SAdaViQZoPWEDAo1zi2R6zx1TdKVwrL9UcpSkXNACIAXA/IMFRXI75xg47f4kuNTBjm/qmhPOqQueojec17yNhHs/XJisDBrMmaG6UEEqk5qggzbEeFyfkDaGtXyifE8; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCokU-0000pG-Qg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:47:23 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:41:57 -0600 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:41:57 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090606054157.GB89564@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> <200906031236.14533.kirk@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906031236.14533.kirk@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Open_Source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:47:24 -0000 --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:36:14PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:59:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: >=20 > > I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to > > zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to d= o. > > > > I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for > > other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc. >=20 > I agree completely. I'd never voluntarily trust my personal information = to a=20 > system that I (or other interested parties on my behalf) couldn't audit. I agree as well: Why encryption that doesn't trust the user isn't trustworthy http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3D362 The article is particular to encryption, of course, but the same priniciples are easily generalized to other software types. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Edward Murphy, Jr. (Murphy's Law): "If there's more than one way to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then someone will do it that way." --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoqAaUACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXsYQCfToF9SYC/EWIfXGZrUP12ShKY r7MAoJZVRl5A9jadQNszNdRAY1+0Jnlm =VdLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ--