In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barkley Vowk writes: >On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> The Atheros driver in FreeBSD is maintained and compiled by Sam Leffler, >> who has been around since BSD 4.2 in the early eighties sometimes. >> >> I trust Sam. > >I don't think that quite answers his question however. Its not so much a >matter of trusting Sam, but a matter of trusting that Sam had enough >access to the binary objects in question to have eliminated the errors in >them.
Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code. And it is a matter of trust. Unless you are willing to stand up can swear that you have never run a single line of code which you have not inspected and throught about yourself, then you implicitly have to trust the programmer. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
