[Gllug] p2p programs

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:43 +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2005, at 11:04, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> > There are millions of programmers who work on these
> > projects who are brought up in different education
> > environments. Their mindsets are different, their
> > approach to problem solving are different. When these
> > programmers get together and brainstorm with ideas, a
> > lot of experience and man-hours goes into it, as
> > opposed to very few engineers working on closed source
> > products.
> 
> Millions of free software programmers? Maybe. But I doubt they're all  
> working on the same piece of software.
> 

Indeed, for the project I work on (Dreamcast Linux) I'm the only one :)
The SH maintainer knows the DC well and would routinely check any code,
but if I wrote a driver for a new device I could probably fool at least
a few people with "beta" code with a backdoor  and while owning a
dreamcast isn't much, it would give me access to your network and allow
me to start scanning all your machines for vulnerabilities.

So, you'd be relying on one person's honesty for the security of all
your network

Incidentally, I'm not doing this!

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