Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:26:50 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1o=22?= <freebsd4@fadesa.es> Subject: Re: atheros chips dangerous? Message-ID: <19518.1155238010@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:10:43 CST." <20060810130331.X94142@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>
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In message <20060810130331.X94142@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>, Barkley Vowk writes: >On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> The Atheros driver in FreeBSD is maintained and compiled by Sam Leffler, >> who has been around since BSD 4.2 in the early eighties sometimes. >> >> I trust Sam. > >I don't think that quite answers his question however. Its not so much a >matter of trusting Sam, but a matter of trusting that Sam had enough >access to the binary objects in question to have eliminated the errors in >them. Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code. And it is a matter of trust. Unless you are willing to stand up can swear that you have never run a single line of code which you have not inspected and throught about yourself, then you implicitly have to trust the programmer. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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