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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygwin CD question
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 00:06:29 -0500
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> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:11:08PM -0700, William V. Nicholson wrote:
> >The point is that if you are really paranoid about these things then
> >someone might slip in a trojan or backdoor while you are downloading
> >Cygwin.  Obviously, if you subsequently set up an integrity tool then
> >your system together with the backdoor would check out as okay
> >(possibly until it got infected with a second backdoor or whatever).
> 
> So, the alternative is to trust that someone else has better security
> than you do and trust their CD offering?
> 
> That doesn't sound paranoid enough to me.

Like I always say, you can never be too paranoid.

Can you?

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot. 
;-)

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