On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/19300/match=culture >> >> It's not obvious to me that anything's changed since then. > > Your idea that FOSS is inherently trustworthy is amusing. :) You > may want to read Ken Thompson's 1984 paper on "Trusting Trust":
That conversation is awesome... I suppose it'd be great to mention how many times Linux boxes have been compromised *BEFORE* a stable fix was released. After a package has been upgraded, you still have to deal with the compromise. At least the Windows malware developers are *mostly* idiots who can be easily detected. I haven't seen too many 'obvious' infections. Many are hijacking the box and running something under a chroot environment. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
