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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX and viruses
Message-ID: <1045@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 17:23:36 GMT
References: <19930@adm.BRL.MIL> <4457@ficc.uu.net> <16655@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <22709@santra.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <22709@santra.UUCP> alo@kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko) writes:
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|Can we trust any of those big companies either? Or that they have
|never had any saboteur programmers working with the OS you are buying.
|Besides, big companies usually don't give you the source code for
|their systems. At least some of the pieces are missing. With GNU you
|can compile everything from sources.  First you compile the GCC with a
|different compiler, of course.

Which compiler may well create a backdoor in your new GCC compiler ...

    Leo.