* Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-07 19:50 PST]: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33855.html > > Linux kernel backdoor blocked > By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus > Posted: 07/11/2003 at 13:05 GMT
On a discussion of this on Slashdot, a link was posted to the following paper by Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust. http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ An excerpt, "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. " Pretty interesting reading. Aseem. -- "Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit" -- Geetanjali _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
