Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:09:43 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, jef moskot <jef@math.miami.edu>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Message-ID: <86zlmievwo.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <864p4qgakx.fsf@ds4.des.no> ("Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rg?= =?utf-8?Q?rav=22's?= message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:07:26 %2B0200") References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEOCCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20080905023638.U53812@phantom.math.miami.edu> <48C0EB58.4060307@FreeBSD.org> <20080905140820.B8020@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <48C1F44F.7030300@FreeBSD.org> <20080906094507.Q19981@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080908125527.H27528@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <864p4qgakx.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> writes: > > really - are you able to really check this overcomplex code that it > > has, or mozilla etc? > Searching for code that sends data over the network and checking that > it's benign? Sure. There is also something called ktrace (or strace > on Linux) that will give you very detailed information about what an > application does. I forgot to add: are *you* able to really check that FreeBSD doesn't collect information about you and send it to a server I control? If not, why do you trust it? Because it's open source, and you trust that even if *you* don't notice it, someone else will? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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