On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:23, Paul Abrahams wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 8:59 pm, James Knott wrote: > > > #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as > > > what the source is? > > > > Compile from source. > > Many years ago Ken Thompson (or maybe it was Dennis Ritchie) gave the > ACM Turing Lecture on, essentially, coding tricks. He showed how it > was possible to booby-trap a compiler using repeated bootstraps in > such a way that the compiler was corrupted, yet its visible source > code was clean. Recompiling the compiler would retain the > corruption. And such a corrupted compiler could do anything, of > course.
Which, of course, leads us directly to those commie Gnu types, since they control gcc _and_ define the GPL! To quote Monty Burns (a true capitalist in its finest tradition): "Damn their oily hides!" (thunder clap) > Paul RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
