From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 14:49:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C36637B406 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 14:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host217-35-31-244.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.35.31.244] helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 1786eW-0004Qg-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:49:44 +0100 Received: from [192.168.10.12] (helo=set.home.penguinpowered.org.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1786kR-0003Er-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:55:51 +0100 Received: from waynep by set.home.penguinpowered.org.uk with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1787dd-00007x-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:52:53 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: VB Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: national securiity backdoor in FreeBSD. References: <3CE295EC.6030603@cogeco.ca> <20020515181558.GA38769@mooseriver.com> <20020515120552.G2674@sunny.localdomain> Date: 15 May 2002 22:52:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20020515120552.G2674@sunny.localdomain> Message-ID: Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG VB writes: > > > > Dude, > > > > You have been watching too many episodes of the X-files. > > Is anyone able to demonstrate whether this guy is a crackpot by relying on > evidence, reasoning and persuasion, or are we only shooting for the emotive > force that comes from wisecracks? I would have to say the whole make world process qualifies as a reaon this wouldn't work. Most FreeBSD machines only have most of their files installed from binary packages for a short time. The first time you cvsup and make world, the binary is replaced with a binary created from verifiable source on your machine. Seems like a hell of a lot of effort for the NSA to go through for that few brief moments of binary life. Oh, and then there is his website. So yeah, we're assuming crackpot. -- - Wayne Pascoe - http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ God gave you the power - Preacher on the Simpsons Hmm. You'd think he'd wanna... limit my power - Bart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message