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Re: "Once We Squeeze All We Can Out of the United States, It Can Dry Up and Blow Away."
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@hawkswing.d-mon.co.uk>
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 13:49:27 CEST
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 13:49:27 CEST
Ari Silversteinn wrote:
> If I write code, by myself, in a locked room, closed source and the very
> same code, open source, which is more trustworthy (that it has not been
> compromised)?
Its a meaningless question. to you that locked-room code is open source
(because you can see it). To us its closed source so it is harder for us to
verify you didn't mess up while writing it.
Both are equally secure and trustworthy *to you*. To us, the OSS version is
more trustworthy because we can verify it without having to decompile and/or
unobscure.
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:56:48 2005