BeyondMachines Aug 17, 2023
Short story about the death of #privacy
Show threadSeán FenianAug 17, 2023
@beyondmachines1 If somebody else is paying for your web applications, your web applications will be written to meet somebody else's needs.
Show threadBeyondMachines Aug 17, 2023
@zakalwe a true Special Circumstances approach, don't you think?
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Ken Thompson talking about back doors in compilers sticks in memory.
Aug 17, 2023 at 4:18pmWeb
Show threadBeyondMachines Aug 17, 2023
@stevewfolds @zakalwe although compilers are not that frequently used on individual machines as in 1984, who does check the compilers for back doors these days?
Show threadSeán FenianAug 17, 2023
@beyondmachines1 @stevewfolds One pretty much has to trust that the package maintainers did their jobs. But there's a lot of eyes on the critical pieces.
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Now it seems software repositories are compromised and updates have been poisoned.
Played with yacc & lex. Work had a TRS-80 (8” floppies) Xenix machine in 1984. Idle hours spent using the C-language ‘learn’ tutor.