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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:11:25 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> But, then, why should your boss trust me to be giving you the right
> information?  I might be maliciously steering you towards corrupted code
> which was specially intended to subvert your security...

What he's not saying here is that secretly he has committed the Special
Meanness (tm) code into the gcc core, so that even if you recompile your
compiler[1] you still get meanness.

[1] http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

Brian

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