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(redmist) Re: Secure Linuxby redmist (Deacon) |
on Sep 17, 2001 at 05:39 UTC ( [id://112794]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I can't imagine why an agency of the US government whose sole purpose is breaking other parties' security (cryptographically or otherwise) would release to the public a mechanism with which to increase the level of security on an individuals computer to a non-trivial level. Why would an organization that spies (see Echelon Project) on the citizens who fund it, give away a product to make even one aspect of security easier for the common man and woman? It just doesn't follow... If it was not a "patch," and was instead it's own distibution, I would be highly suspect of the particular binary of GCC that came with said distribution. (Read Ken Thompson's thoughts on Trust and compilers. I will bet dollars to donuts that something sneaky is going on here. redmistPurple Monkey Dishwasher
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