On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:10:48 +1300, Stuart Fox (DSL AK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably are being a little paranoid, although I prefer to run the > binaries as distributed by the supplier (I of course trust that they > haven't included backdoors, and they have compiled it sensibly. For me, > any open source application I run is essentially closed source > anyway...).
Yes, but because it's open source, you know that thousands of eyes are looking at it daily. Especially in larger projects like Mozilla/Firefox. I'm sure you'd hear about it if the Mozilla team was including backdoors. That is unless you think there's a widespread consipracy to keep you in the dark about backdoors in common internet applications. In that case, I think you need to adjust your tinfoil hat. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
