Re: "Once We Squeeze All We Can Out of the United States, It Can Dry Up and Blow Away."

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:58:41 GMT, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:

>>
>> What would be your reasoning behind trusting explicitly open source?
>
> First, "explicitly" is your contrivance, not mine. Please don't put words in
> my mouth.

So you don't trust open source code explicitly. Fine.
 
>> have the same possibility of compromise as anyone else. whose to say that
>> this open source author or that open source author is not, in reality, a
>> front for a TLA?
>
> Me, for one.
>
> Every other capable person who takes the time to examine sourrce code and
> build their own executables, for another.
>
> We already know for a fact that open source works, Ari. Evidence: JAP.
>
> Is open source perfect? No, nothing ever is. But it's light years beyond
> trying to reverse engineer closed source applications. So far removed in
> fact, that yes, it *does* instill a high level of trust in most people.
> Deservedly so.

Didn't address the question.

Let me rephrase.

Is it possible that open source code could be written by adversaries (TLA
or other) for the detriment of the using community? Yes or no?

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