HI Joe et al.. On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:43, J Sloan wrote: > George Stoianov wrote: > >> operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA > >> what it > >> thought of their products." > > > > ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the > > NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my Linux system... > > That's quite a leap of logic. And difficult to imagine, since the source > is available for verification.
Its quite true that the source is available, but two questions. #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as what the source is? #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he saw one? JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
