If you can't trust anyone on the internet, why are so many of us…

If you can't trust anyone on the internet, why are so many of us… - Grin with cat attached

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wechsler		Oct. 16th, 2003 07:39 am
wechsler	If you can't trust anyone on the internet, why are so many of us using linux and open-source applications?

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From:

azekeil
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 01:20 am (Link)

*grin* Yup. It's all to do with motives.

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ROTFL

From:

wechsler
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 12:22 am (Link)

Thanks, that's made my morning ;)

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From:

uon
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 12:13 am (Link)

I personally read every line of source code before compiling it.

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From:

deliberateblank
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 03:18 am (Link)

Don't worry - he also uses a compiler he wrote himself directly in machine code, and only compiles on a CPU he built himself on a Xilinx which he first micrographed to verify the programming logic.

Any day now he'll have completed the security audit on hello world.

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From:

uon
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 03:37 am (Link)

You'd be amazed how difficult it is to find an electron microscope you can trust. I wound up building one myself out of lodestone, a broken lightbulb, and some bits of string.

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giolla
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 04:12 am (Link)

I hope you made that string yourself.

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From:

feanelwa
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 05:53 am (Link)

*blink blink*
Blimey. And I bet it works better than our class one as well. (Which is not tricky - there truly is no limit to the amount of grease a bunch of undergraduates can inflict on a vacuum chamber)

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olithered
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 03:18 am (Link)

Thanks for reminding me of that; made me smile.

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From:

uon
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 03:25 am (Link)

I dot know what you're talking about.

(I found it amusing that a couple of vaguely recent trojans were actually in configure scripts rather than the source code itself..)

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From:

wechsler
Date: October 16th, 2003 - 03:38 am (Link)

Good point.

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*ROTFL*

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