Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Yaroslav, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I ITPed a package which unfortunately ended up not providing original > sources (sources everybody gets were indentation removed). Unreasonable > denial of providing original source forced me to question good intent of > the author to provide useful and spa

Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> * Yaroslav Halchenko: > > The question is: are there any helper tools for doing source code > > validation subject to possibly available snippets of code which might be > > for illegal activity (ie sending out private information, or serve as > > backdoors, etc)? > There are several commercial

Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Yaroslav Halchenko: > The question is: are there any helper tools for doing source code > validation subject to possibly available snippets of code which might be > for illegal activity (ie sending out private information, or serve as > backdoors, etc)? There are several commercial bug finding