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Article #321Re: Beta testers needed for security tool
From: Valdis Kletnieks
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:10
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:10
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In article <mccoy.716057636@ren.cs.iastate.edu> mccoy@cs.iastate.edu (Chris McCoy) writes:
>> Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>> *shaking head* Man, some people can get just a LITTLE too paranoid!
>Of course there's always source so you can recompile your software.
>After all, everyone can trust the compiler, right !?! ;-)
I assume that Chris put the smiley on there because he's read
Ken Thompson's Turing Award Lecture "On Trusting Trust".
Those who haven't read it *should*.
@ARTICLE{Trusting.Trust,
author={Ken Thompson},
title={Reflections on Trusting Trust},
journal={Communications of the ACM},
volume=27,
number=8,
month=Aug,
year=1984,
pages="761-763"
}
/Valdis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!vtserf!vttcf.cc.vt.edu!valdis From: valdis@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,alt.security,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.testers,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Beta testers needed for security tool Message-ID: <6662@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Date: 10 Sep 92 01:10:50 GMT References: <WESOMMER.92Sep7144915@bill-the-cat.mit.edu> <1992Sep8.164108.1617@osf.org> <mccoy.716057636@ren.cs.iastate.edu> Sender: news@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Followup-To: comp.security.misc Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 23