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Re: Can I trust downloading Python?

Date 2013-09-09 10:23 -0600
From Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Can I trust downloading Python?
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On 09/09/2013 05:02 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> But (and this is stepping into *really* paranoid territory here. But
> maybe not beyond the realm of possibility) it would not be so hard to
> compromise compilers at the chip level. If the NSA were to strike an
> agreement with, say, Intel so that every time a compiler ran on the
> system, secret code was discreetly inserted into the binary, it would be
> nearly impossible to detect and a very elegant solution to a tough problem.

Indeed it is really paranoid territory, but now doesn't seem quite as
far fetched as one originally thought a few years ago!  We'll still
trust (we have to; we have no other choice), but the level of trust in
computers in general has certainly gone down a notch and will never
quite be the same.

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Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-09-07 21:04 -0600
  Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-08 12:32 +0000
    Re: Can I trust downloading Python? "Charles Hottel" <chottel@earthlink.net> - 2013-09-08 12:08 -0400
      Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-09 02:39 +1000
        Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-09 09:41 +0000
          Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com> - 2013-09-09 06:02 -0500
          Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-09-09 10:23 -0600
          Re: Can I trust downloading Python? William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2013-09-09 12:40 -0400
          Re: Can I trust downloading Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-09-09 10:44 -0600

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