Am 25.06.2008 um 00:12 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >> Am 24.06.2008 um 23:12 schrieb Frank Ch. Eigler: >> >>> The gist of the argument is that one can't currently know what's >>> really inside an etoys image, except beyond what it itself tells us, >> >> This is indeed a valid concern. As I wrote before, an external tool >> could be written to examine what exactly is in the image. >> >>> and cannot even be rebuilt from the sources it claims to contain. >> >> >> "even be rebuilt from the sources" ... why would you want to do that? >> It could be done, as well as you could tear down the Empire State >> building and rebuild it from scratch, but why? > > leaving aside all the opensource arguments and just looking at it > from a purely pragmatic point of view: > > becouse paranoid people want to be able to verify that what's in the > blob is really what it claims to be.
That would be accomplished by the tool I mentioned above. > and we need to support these paranoid people becouse there are > people who really are out to get us, and the small number of > paranoid people protect us all. I think you forgot a smiley to mark this as sarcasm. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel