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Re: Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?
From: TK-421 <ryanarchy () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:42:54 -0600
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:10:48 +1300, Stuart Fox (DSL AK) <stuartf () datacom co nz> wrote:
You probably are being a little paranoid, although I prefer to run the binaries as distributed by the supplier (I of course trust that they haven't included backdoors, and they have compiled it sensibly. For me, any open source application I run is essentially closed source anyway...).
Yes, but because it's open source, you know that thousands of eyes are looking at it daily. Especially in larger projects like Mozilla/Firefox. I'm sure you'd hear about it if the Mozilla team was including backdoors. That is unless you think there's a widespread consipracy to keep you in the dark about backdoors in common internet applications. In that case, I think you need to adjust your tinfoil hat. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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