Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 10:47:17 -0800 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports vs. packages... Message-ID: <p050019b2b6dab14856c1@[192.168.168.205]> In-Reply-To: <20010318194637.A10260@acc.umu.se> References: <3AB3C1C2.67E1AB9B@yahoo.com> <20010317125349.E22316@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010318194637.A10260@acc.umu.se>
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At 7:46 PM +0100 3/18/01, Markus Holmberg wrote: >Isn't there a small security advantage with building from source >(compared to downloading packages from an untrusted party)? Access to the source code (and even a close examination of it) isn't enough. See Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture, "Reflections on Trusting Trust": http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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