Re: sendmail trojan

[Alexandros Papadopoulos <apapadop () cmu edu>]

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That's exactly my point. Who does the code review? You, the final user of the 
product? No way! You implicitly trust the supplier to do that for you. Or 
does your company employ an army of programmers that take apart all source 
files of any application you compile and review its functionality?

> Haven't you ever heard of code review ?  It's part of any decent software
> development process.
>
> Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> > Frankly, even if the trojan was enclosed in <blink></blink> statements,
> > in 80,000 lines of code it would be lost. It's not feasible for one
> > single coder to proofread everything he/she compiles. You have to
> > implicitly trust the coder/maintainer/distributor, I see no other way.

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