Hello Russell, > If the NSA people were going to do something nasty why would they do it in > code that's got their name on it when they could send in code from > random_user@xxxxxxxxxxx? Because such a large patch coming from random_user would raise some eyebrows, and small patches are not easy to hide such nasty buglets in. All it takes is a single overflow in the right location... The Trojan horse was also a "friendly gift". It's just you can't be careful enough with respect to trusting (foreign) security agencies ;-) . Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research