On Fri, June 12, 2015 3:54 pm, jd1008 wrote:
>
>
> On 06/12/2015 02:32 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> On Fri, June 12, 2015 3:20 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> On 6/12/2015 1:03 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>>> But the bottom line is the same: in both cases you are executing
>>>> somebody's else code on your computer.
>>>
>>> your computer is *ALWAYS* executing someone elses code, unless you
>>> wrote
>>> every line of code in it, including the BIOS and the firmware of all
>>> the
>>> attached devices.
>>>
>> Indeed. What was never mentioned in this thread is a chain of trust. The
>> level of trust to what you get from your system vendor, software vendors
>> (be they open source or proprietary) may be quite different from the
>> level
>> of trust to what you get when clicking on some web link inside some
>> search
>> page, or on some website (even if you visit the website often).
>>
>> So, it is all about whom and what do you trust, and to what level can
>> you
>> afford to trust, and whether you are able to track the software code to
>> the code origin.
>>
>> This all was what I implied when I said that short phrase which may look
>> ridiculously if taken literally - exactly as you pointed out -, but may
>> make sense if you take into account the chains of trust involved.
>>
>> Valeri
>>
> The more you know, the less you trust :) :)
> Read the article:
> http://www.kaspersky.com
Please, don't advertize Kaspersky here, especially when we are talking
about trust. He is KGB guy (is, not was; the only way they retire from
KGB, CIA, MI-5, and others is dead, feet first dead).
Valeri
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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