Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

Alan Hargreaves Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:18:33 -0800

Alan Hargreaves wrote:

Orvar Korvar wrote:

I know Solaris 10 is closed source and OpenSolaris is not. I think it will be hard to review all code and compile it yourself to be sure against back doors.

Just because you have the code, can read it, and compile it yourself 
does not guarantee anything. Earlier in the thread David Dyer-Bennet 
recommended Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award Lecture - It's titled 
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" and you should be able to find it on 
google. This is definitely recommended reading for anyone who believes 
that simply having the source and the ability to compile it yourself is 
simply insufficient.

Of course I meant sufficient, not insufficient.

alan.

-- 
Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta
Staff Engineer (Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance)
Systems Technical Support Centre
Sun Microsystems

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