Re: The Truth: Everything Blows Your Privacy!

From: nemo_outis (abc_at_xyz.com)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: 20 May 2005 03:05:39 GMT

Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote in
news:d6jj4j$s0q$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca:

> "nemo_outis" <abc@xyz.com> writes:
>
>
>>Moreover, even TOTAL open-source is not invincible. The classic
>>exposition is Kernighan's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" which is
>>widely available on the net. (PS Kernighan is one of the
>>co-originators of the C language, etc. so that gives you some idea of
>>his heavyweight credibility). Read it and weep.
>
> This was essentially a joke. Withe the precognitive abilities required
> to know how compilers would be organized in the future, the writer of
> this bug could make himself far richer and influencial playing the
> stock market.
>

The point of the paper is no joke. For instance, a compiler, loader, etc.
could link in fixed keylogger code, etc. Or, it could be part of the
gazillion standard dll's that get linked into current executables.

Regards,