From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 11:26:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA92A37B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.133.118.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.133.118]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09426; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4DEBDF.8396ECBA@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:26:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Rasputin , Jamie Bowden , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <200107100731.f6A7VxR05700@panix1.panix.com> <20010710125613.A51035@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B4B33DA.242EFDDC@mindspring.com> <20010711112054.D93534@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Also, you should be aware that in commercial deployment, > > having a compiler on board the system is often considered > > a bad thing, as it permits entre to exploiters bringing > > their own programs onto the system. > > I've seen people disable compilers before, but I haven't understood > how it helps. You can compile elsewhere and bring the binary onto the > system, can't you? Unless the system is some extremely rare OS or > doesn't ship with a compiler at all -- neither of which is true of > FreeBSD. You aren't thinking like an embedded systems developer trying to sell a box with no moving parts into a telco that requires such things, with the cost of a 1G flash sitting at ~$2,600/unit. You also aren't thinking like a TrustedBSD "Without my compiler, your executables will have the wrong cryptographic signatures, and my OS will refuse to run them" wonk... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message