On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:12 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Then again, if you want to be safe, you should only use code you > have written/inspected yourself, compiled on a compiler that you > have written yourself. After all, it was proven that you could imbed > code in the compiler that would be added to any program that you > compiled with it, and would not show up in the compiler source code. > (The compiler would add the code automatically when compiling itself.) Here's a link to Ken Thompson's "Reflections on trusting trust" which discusses these ideas: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html It's a short essay/talk and well worth the read. Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
