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On Thursday 25 March 2004 19:22, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> The difference is that we (the developers) control our machines. |
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Given that its possible to become a developer without any certification |
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process other than being able to fix a few bugs and use irc; who is really in |
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control? |
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* Become a dev |
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* Upload trojan ebuild to randomly corrupt hd then rm -rf / after 24 hours |
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* Cackle as tens of thousands of systems are destroyed |
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Is it really that simple? And to fix it is so easy.. just keep a list of |
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people allowed to modify each directory. Developers sign, users check. |
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I can't really understand this thread of conversation.. |
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"Hey, heres a way of solving some security problems" |
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"We're not interested in solving all of those problems at the moment, just one |
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of them" |
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"But you can fix the whole system, and its not difficult" |
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"Not interested. We only want to fix one problem for now." |
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