Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 06:30:35 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Security of Commercial vs. OSS. Was: Breaking permissions on Windows 2000 Message-ID: <20020209063035.A496@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <003501c1b16a$45286710$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:04:11PM %2B0100 References: <F89WLAWhMvAXiTeLXh500005b1c@hotmail.com> <003501c1b16a$45286710$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Thus spake Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>: > Charles writes: > > > I can see your point that one must trust the > > authors of the code at some point. > > There are really only two options: You check every line of code yourself, > in which case no trust is required, or you trust the authors of the code, > and you don't check every single line. But you can't have it both ways; and > very few people have the time and energy to look at every single line of > code. You would also have to check your compiler and above all, your hardware. At some point it becomes silly. A classic example is recounted at: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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