On 01/07/2014 09:04 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > John Doe wrote: >> After all the news about backdoors, "planted" bugs or weakened standards >> in apps, in routers, hardware firmwares, etc... these days, can we trust >> anything? >> Can we trust the bios? >> >> Can we trust the compiler not to stealthily inject a backdoor in the >> compiled version of a clean code?Given that most entries from the The >> International Obfuscated C Code Contest (http://www.ioccc.org/) Yeah didn't Dennis Richie modify the C compiler to insert a backdoor for him when ever the compiler saw login.c was being programmed? > One thing on the positive side: the last few months, I think a *lot* of > folks are eyeballing this stuff, specifically looking for issues, and > probably some are going back to things that they said "I dunno... but I'll > come back to look at this someday". I *suspect* that within about six > months, it'll be as relatively safe as it was maybe 10 years ago. > > Of course, we'll need some wakeup call to look at it all again in 10 > years. In the meantime, I think things are getting safer, relatively. > > Hmmmm, speaking of BIOS, wonder if this will impact the push for UEFI.... > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com