jc@atcmpe.atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel) (08/09/90)
lath@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Laurent Lathieyre) writes: >I wonder if operating systems shouldn't >preferably be delivered in source form rather than in >compiled form... And even that does not guard you against the virus/trojan Ken Thompson described in his Turing award lecture. How can you guarantee that the compiler/assembler or linker does not insert some extra code, recognizing the fact that it is compiling/assembling/linking the new version of the compiler, operating system or whatever? Therefore I do not agree with mr. Lathieyre: It is better to have one source of your O/S. I'd rather boot off one of the suppliers disks than off on I built myself using God knows what utilities... JC ___ __ ____________________________________________________________________ |/ \ Jan Christiaan van Winkel Tel: +31 80 566880 jc@atcmp.nl | AT Computing P.O. Box 1428 6501 BK Nijmegen The Netherlands __/ \__/ ____________________________________________________________________