From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 03:44:55 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B55A9E9F for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x22a.google.com (mail-ob0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A11021C for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id va2so60812009obc.1 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:44:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yZNMieH+G3hf//eXurEOwclyaPONG2fpa5eJSAMVkdY=; b=ykB09+7XDvNT2lRINNSTONourqo0wmobKCSSEJ9yOySmYuMCV7zqzdwEOWTUyguv2P YHfA7UzkgzG179jBCeLKNHMmfzpsOtwJ0D21uNdnueqSW1b2555h4h995c7bTApS8+MW /dF4ImgyVHxhCTWboHiVWz5YoVAsWA0/PCvLcl9+RBFDEF7c+YlUQHG1K6ZQ3y4xFuge mVaESVJuKdvcKYnvP3laUNJ1rYZIimFlXxq9LiMAtR4g8pbKk9yGYZ5fW9KF3ngUzucW kQwzy5jm+vCOgKdiRHx5Qz21OuI3ZglZ5r2wUIeYfMwfifi7bZDtPObQNhsLHQHejnRd gemw== X-Received: by 10.182.231.230 with SMTP id tj6mr20910610obc.58.1424231094782; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:44:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ip-64-134-6-77.public.wayport.net. [64.134.6.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r83sm12353473oif.28.2015.02.17.19.44.53 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:44:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54E40AB4.80507@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:44:52 -0700 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it? References: <54E39F83.70002@gmail.com> <20150217202411.GA42894@neutralgood.org> <20150217222744.0a9b1d87@archlinux> <54E3BF90.9060609@gmail.com> <20150218000401.2ec1bf7a@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20150218000401.2ec1bf7a@archlinux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:44:55 -0000 On 02/17/2015 04:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:24:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: >> A people's tribunal of highly capable software and hardware engineers >> is desperately needed to look into the source codes of all SW and HW >> designs and implementations - including the compilers and assemblers. > We are still free to write Assembler opcode using an hex editor, that > way nothing could go wrong. When I started, I didn't write opcode > using an hex editor, but I used an Assmbler editor that didn't provide > macros, this editor was close to an hex editor. There was no way to > correct something by inserting code. > _________________________________________ I am not sure I understand how a hex editor would insure that nothing could go wrong. But my point is that currently, is not all open source developed for free? So, an international tribunal of developers would indeed unearth quite a lot of code that would turn out to be suspicious at best.