Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The great Ken Thompson (co-inventor of Unix and inventor of B, the
> precursor to C) published a paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust" which
> describes how he subverted the C compiler to insert a backdoor to the
> login program:
YIKES!
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Alan Meyer
amey...@yahoo.com
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:09:55 am Alan Meyer wrote:
> However there was one program I particularly remember that was
> indisputably spyware. I bought a Memorex branded scanner at
> Staples at a big discount. After I installed the driver,
> ZoneAlarm told me that a program called BM.EXE was attempti
On Saturday 06 March 2010 02:23 pm, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I used ZA back before I switched to Linux only, and I have nothing but
> praise for it. The interesting thing is, not one of those programs
> failed to run properly without Internet access.
I actually really wish there was a ZoneAlarm, meaning
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:48:26 am Alan Meyer wrote:
> I have to agree with some of your points. On the issue of trust,
> for example, I trust that the open source software that I run is
> safe. However I have found that a number of closed source
> programs I have installed on my Windows machines in
On 03/06/2010 11:09 AM, Alan Meyer wrote:
It reveals that a great many programs
attempt to silently send messages out on the Internet and, in a
few cases, act as servers for incoming messages.
I used ZA back before I switched to Linux only, and I have nothing but
praise for it. The interestin
Travis wrote:
> From: "Alan Meyer"
> > ... I have found that a number of closed source
> > programs I have installed on my Windows machines included
> > spyware. ...
>
> Why don't you name names?
I have run the ZoneAlarm free firewall program on my Windows
machines. It blocks outgoing traffic
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From: "Alan Meyer"
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Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
There's no problem buying a program. In fact ...
I see
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> There's no problem buying a program. In fact ...
I see that this is a subject on which you have thought long and
deeply.
I have to agree with some of your points. On the issue of trust,
for example, I trust that the open source software that I run is
safe
Alan Meyer posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:51:34 -0800 as excerpted:
> But having said that I have to say I'm not really opposed to commercial
> software, any more than I'm opposed to commercial hardware, commercial
> cars, commercial food, or commercial television. Hundreds of thousands
> of peopl
