Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 13 November 2003 01:33 am, Melissa Reese wrote: Or maybe too many eyes looking in the wrong directions. My sister works at MS, and she's under the impression that everyone there is cross-eyed. :-) I just wish they were tongue-tied as well...wy too much coming out of

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-12 Thread Chuck Vose
HaywireMac wrote: One thing that occurred to me, thinking about Eric's adage, there are really *no* eyes on the Windows kernel (or whatever you call it). How many unknown/deliberate backdoors could be in *there*? Some time ago I was speaking to a MS employee at a party, he mentioned that MS

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-12 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chuck, On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 9:22:26 PM PST, you wrote: There are probably not enough eyes to see all the holes... Or maybe too many eyes looking in the wrong directions. My sister works at MS, and she's under the impression that

[newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-07 Thread HaywireMac
From Newsforge: In a stunning verification of Eric S. Raymond's open source adage, Many eyes make all bugs shallow, an attempt to place malicious backdoor code in the Linux kernel 2.6 development tree was detected and rejected almost immediately. One thing that occurred to me, thinking about