Re: M$ attack on Common Sense

From: User (User_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/14/03 

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:08:29 GMT

"Sinister Midget" <sm@kcsmartNOSPAM.org> wrote in message
news:79d0kb.q6p.ln@host.newsservicer.org...
> As Leythos so eloquently gibbered on Sat, 13 Sep 2003 at 23:33 GMT:

> Not once have I *ever* needed to check the source to see if it was
> safe. Instead I've been able to download the ISOs from trusted sources,
> check against the MD5SUMs to be sure they're safe, burn them, plug them

The checksum only checks the file has not been tampered with AFTER it was
released for distibution (MS do this as well you know). It does not check
to see if the is a deliberate trojan in the software or and accidental
error. The ONLY way to do that is to review the source. If you have not
reviewed the source and then compiled from the same source you reviewed then
any claims about safety from OSS point of view are blasted out of the water.

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