UNIX and viruses

Leo de Wit leo at philmds.UUCP
Wed Jun 14 03:23:36 AEST 1989


In article <22709 at santra.UUCP> alo at kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko) writes:
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|Can we trust any of those big companies either? Or that they have
|never had any saboteur programmers working with the OS you are buying.
|Besides, big companies usually don't give you the source code for
|their systems. At least some of the pieces are missing. With GNU you
|can compile everything from sources.  First you compile the GCC with a
|different compiler, of course.

Which compiler may well create a backdoor in your new GCC compiler ...

    Leo.



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