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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
