Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you thoroughly trust read). Agreed.

Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread hogan
Ok.. so call me cynical etc. I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not malicious. I have nothing against the mirror host in this circumstance, indeed I'm happy there's a deb to download for PINE (even though I should really learn how to make a package from a load of

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, hogan wrote: I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not malicious. You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you thoroughly trust read). Agreed. However, the classic statement on the subject is even