While that's sound advice, I do have a question - do you scour the source code to every app you download, compile, and install, prior to doing so? If so, you must not run any X server - it took me about 50 hours to get my P4-3.2GHz processor to compile KDE 3.3, nevermind actually having me, the human, try to read and comprehend it!

At some point, you need to decide who to trust. Big, well-known companies are one thing, but who's to say that something you downloaded off SourceForge doesn't have some back door in it, in plain sight? Especially if you download the tarball, and the tarball doesn't match what's in CVS, it can get difficult to prove later if the project becomes big.

Paranoia is just paranoia if it's also impractical. ;-)

In reply to Re^2: Hiding your Script by Tanktalus
in thread Hiding your Script by perl_devel

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