Author Topic: You can only trust code you have written yourself!  (Read 1802 times)

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Offline polonus

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You can only trust code you have written yourself!
« on: July 18, 2007, 04:48:26 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

More and more code comes with hidden back doors and key loggers. Maybe there comes a day that just for that reason alone open source is going to be seen as illegitimate. So it is all a matter of trust, they already knew that in 1995, read this: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

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