Real programmers toggle in all programs from the switch register. What do you mean, "Computers don't have switch registers any more"?
Kids, ask you dad or grandpa what a "switch register" is (was). Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:29 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:11:25AM +0100, John Marino wrote: > > On 2/10/2016 10:01 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > >> I'm racking my brains and I can't find a single rational reason why > > >> somebody would refuse the package (especially if building it on an > Atom > > >> is the alternative). > > > > > > The famous paper from Ken Thompson: Reflections on trusting trust > > > > > > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=358198.358210 > > > > > > > The source is publicly available on github. The only way that Thompson > > paper could apply is if a trojan is inserted at the FreeBSD package > > builder level. > > Or at your local level. See below. > > > So I guess [A] could say FreeBSD package builder is compromised > > (intentionally by FreeBSD project or unknown to all due a hacker). And > > I guess that could be possible, but the counter is: If you cant' trust > > packages built by FreeBSD, how can you trust the FreeBSD base not to > > have a trojan? > > > > Which would mean that only the people that *also* build FreeBSD from > > source would have a leg to stand on. > > > > So I will concede that case: If you accept no binaries at all from > > FreeBSD and only build base and packages from source, then you have a > > point. But still the response, "Then don't complain" applies. It's a > > conscious decision and consequences of decisions must be accepted. > > Well, no, actually there's no end of it. > > Can you trust the compiler used to compile FreeBSD from source? > > Can you trust your motherboard's firmware to not install patches onto > FreeBSD after compiling from source? (This is old hat on Windows to make > it easy for people to get the right drivers from a fresh install of > Windows.) > > Can you trust the update procedure for your board's firmware? > > Can you trust that there isn't a trojan in your CPU's microcode? > > Seriously, it never ends. You just have to pick a level and say you trust > everything below that. > -- > Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ > > "A pig's gotta fly." - Crimson Pig > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
