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From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about scm security holes
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:36:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305073642.GA16131@inner.home.ulmdo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b131003041803q9abf6baq4cf9ffcca990b51c@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:03:08 +0000, Avery Pennarun wrote:
...
> where every single developer workstation has a complete copy of the
> entire project history anyway.

It's the point of a dev workstation to have access to the code,
so McAfees whining about SCMs letting that happen is moot.

What would be helping here is a separation between internet-facing
and local work into separate machines.

> least.  Traceable, not so much, because you can create a commit with
> whatever committer/author names you want and then push them in.

You can still log who pushed what into your blessed repo,
and hold that person accountable.

Andreas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-04 20:09 Question about scm security holes walt
2010-03-05  2:03 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05  3:00   ` John Tapsell
2010-03-05  3:19     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05  4:07       ` John Tapsell
2010-03-05  3:20   ` walt
2010-03-05  3:28     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05  7:36   ` Andreas Krey [this message]
2010-03-05  9:25   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-05 10:49     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-05 18:22     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05 22:33       ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-05 17:47 ` Daniel Barkalow

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