Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial > > binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you > > thoroughly trust read). > > Agr

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial > binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you > thoroughly trust read). Agreed. However, the classic statement on the subject is eve

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, hogan wrote: > I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not > malicious. You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you

Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread hogan
Ok.. so call me cynical etc. I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not malicious. I have nothing against the mirror host in this circumstance, indeed I'm happy there's a deb to download for PINE (even though I should really learn how to make a package from a load of