Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:35:29 +0000 From: "Thordur Ivar B." <thib@mi.is> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chfn, date, chsh INFECTED according to chkrootkit Message-ID: <20040818183529.5c52521b.thib@mi.is> In-Reply-To: <20040818123706.T887@acropolis.argolis.org> References: <20040818121102.95460.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> <20040818142511.390043af.thib@mi.is> <20040818144948.GA55534@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040818162355.08596948.thib@mi.is> <20040818123706.T887@acropolis.argolis.org>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:41:42 -0400 (EDT)
Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Thordur Ivar B. wrote:
>
> > Yes ofcourse you will need to trust your own toolchain and compiler (I keep
> > "trusted" binarys on CD to use in cases like this. (And for post-mortem
> > inspection.)
>
> I'm curious, where do the "trusted" binaries come from? In theory,
> the FreeBSD build machine could have been hacked a long time ago and the
> hack keeps propagating.
>
> --
> Matt Piechota
Note the "" around trusted. There is no way (besieds manually going through the
entire src-tree to be sure that the sources are "trust worthy" but I have the
highest confident of the administrative personnel wich keep's the source safe
and the machines uncomprimised and the developers in general.
If I did not "trust" them I would simply shutdown my machines, remove the caples
and throw it out the window.
My $0.05
--
Kv, thib[att]mi{dot}is
A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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