> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:11:08PM -0700, William V. Nicholson wrote: > >The point is that if you are really paranoid about these things then > >someone might slip in a trojan or backdoor while you are downloading > >Cygwin. Obviously, if you subsequently set up an integrity tool then > >your system together with the backdoor would check out as okay > >(possibly until it got infected with a second backdoor or whatever). > > So, the alternative is to trust that someone else has better security > than you do and trust their CD offering? > > That doesn't sound paranoid enough to me.
Like I always say, you can never be too paranoid. Can you? -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
