From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wiretapping Linux?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:40:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060516144044.GJ15032@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0605160939290.10890@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:48:25AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
...
> > So what about Linux? With thousands of people working on the Kernel if
> > someone from the NSA wanted to slip a back door into the Kernel, could
> > the do that?
>
> Well, yes and no.
>
...
> There's so much free stuff out there, that people download and install
> blindly, that I'm sure if someone wanted to really badly, they could get
> it on some boxes. If they were slime and added something to a binary,
> and supplied the source without the backdoor, that might last a while.
> Unless you compile everything yourself, it's not easy to make sure that
> all binaries came from the source you have.
Read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" to see why compiling things from
source gets you absolutely *zero* extra security in this regard.
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
--
/ jakob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 13:24 Wiretapping Linux? Marc Perkel
2006-05-16 13:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-16 13:56 ` Marc Perkel
2006-05-16 14:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2006-05-16 16:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-16 15:05 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-16 15:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-16 16:12 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-16 20:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-16 20:47 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-18 11:25 ` Helge Hafting
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605180741350.4006@chaos.analogic.com>
2006-05-18 12:41 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-18 15:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-16 17:09 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-16 17:27 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-17 0:57 ` Peter Chubb
2006-05-16 20:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-16 21:01 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-17 4:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-17 1:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-17 8:07 Joerg Pommnitz
2006-05-17 10:24 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-17 12:02 ` Joerg Pommnitz
2006-05-17 12:16 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-17 13:25 ` Joerg Pommnitz
2006-05-17 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-17 18:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
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