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From: Chris Bainbridge <c.j.bainbridge@×××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Redux: 2004.1 will not include a secure portage.
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:03:51
Message-Id: 200403252003.28294.c.j.bainbridge@ed.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Redux: 2004.1 will not include a secure portage. by Patrick Lauer
1 On Thursday 25 March 2004 19:44, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2
3 > It is good that you, as well as many other Gentooists, are very aware of
4 > security risks, but I think that this discussion is slowly slipping into
5 > a paranoid worst-case analysis that says that we can't trust nobody.
6
7 Yes we are losing sight of the point.
8
9 A single rogue or compromised developer could destroy tens of thousands of
10 systems. There is no security mechanism of gradual failure, and there are no
11 plans to develop one. That is the point.
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