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| From | "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: The joy of simplicity? |
| Date | 2015-07-11 19:22 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <d0c5jiF73bbU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <3u6dnQ81NstKlQLInZ2dnUU78QGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1205165990458180846.460581peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <mnosba0pdk@news3.newsguy.com> <mnp9pa$4vi$1@dont-email.me> <mnq8tc$th6$1@dont-email.me> |
"Dave Garland" <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote in message news:mnq8tc$th6$1@dont-email.me... > On 7/10/2015 3:27 PM, Charles Richmond wrote: >> "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in message >> news:mnosba0pdk@news3.newsguy.com... >>> On 2015-07-10, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] >>> >>> Still, there's nothing that says an open-source system can't be secure, >>> provided you keep the keys secret. Knowing how a lock works doesn't >>> automatically mean you can crack it. And what's the alternative? >>> Certainly not closed source, which can contain all sorts of back doors >>> whose existence can never be disproved. "Security through obscurity" >>> has been pretty much discredited (except among True Believers, of >>> course). >>> >> >> See "Reflections on Trusting Trust", Ken Thompson's 1984 ACM Turing >> Award speech: >> >> https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf >> > > A paper that is highly relevant in these days of (often justified) > paranoia. Yes. > (Is it paranoia if they really are trying to "get" you? But they usually aren't. > And don't even paranoids have real enemies?) Very few of them do.
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