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Re: Stopping open proxies and open relays


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:45:06 -0500

On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:27:11 +0200, Petri Helenius said:

It would help if systems would only execute code that is signed 
properly. This would make malware traceable. However the current way of 
getting your code signed is in many cases too costly for the casual open 
source developer so people are used to running unsigned or selfsigned 
application even when the facilities to check signatures would already 
exist in the system. (though for example in Windows, signatures are only 
checked at install, not runtime)

People are used to doing dumb things.  Here's a depressing story:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=53390


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