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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: Stopping Trojans
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 17:22:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 17:22:22 1987
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	Here are some ideas on avoiding Trojan horses:

	(A) download source only, or
	(B) download programs from well known authors 
	(C) download from better controlled BBS's

	Unfortunetly, if one follows the above three points strictly, one 
	usually misses out on a lot of good software.   There really is
	no way to 'verify' unknown author's programs, and those of us who
	do post programs on BBS's are doing so because we want to share them
	with everyone... not out of duty.  We are not about to spend an extra
	three hours 'preparing' our contributions to 'prove' they are not
	trojan horses.

	So if anybody has any ideas about having the *authors* do something
	'extra' when posting code, they might as well forget it... nobody will
	ever do it.

					-Matt