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Trust: Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security

Trust: Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security

Posted Aug 28, 2008 19:57 UTC (Thu) by jcvw (subscriber, #50475)
In reply to: Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security by OLPC
Parent article: Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security

Your mileage may vary a lot...
You cannot ever trust what you get, not even when you recompile yourself, not even when recomiling gcc.

Don't forget Ken Thompson's Turing award lecture...

See http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html


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