On 05/15/2010 11:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:12 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote: >> I have many programs which g++ has produced and I own. These could >> be the target of a virus. > > What do you mean exactly? > >> It would be easy for me to wipe all of my >> executables and re-make them but I just realized that unlike many >> LINUX folk, I am somewhat virus vulnerable ... maybe with quotes around >> the word. Worms, Trojan horses, phishing ... are possible. We should >> not hide behind a Superiority complex until some strange anti social kid >> nails us. We already have a lot of safeguards in place. But it seems >> that we are a trusting community. > > On the contrary, I'd say we are a healthily paranoid community. Being > security-aware means focussing safeguards on where it matters, such as > proper account control, proper firewall configuration, proper scepticism > about random binary downloads etc. > > poc > > And either going through the source code and/or replying on the same paranoid community to do it ... which most definitely happens. If you're compiling source code - its coming from somewhere. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
