Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!

From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 00:39:50 EST


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:02:54PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
 
> Point for me is, that with a DRM you could 100% verify that foreign
> module Y is 100% from company Z. Or that binary product F is 100% from
> the company and can be trusted to run here or there.

Excuse me, but I don't get the last part. You know that
        F had been built in environment of unspecified degree of security
        from source that had been kept in <--->
        written by programmers you don't know
        who had been hired in conformace with criteria <--->
        and released after passing QA of unknown quality (but you can bet
that they had missed some security holes in the past)
        under a license that almost certainly disclaims any responsibility.

Care to explain how does one get from the trust in above to "trusted to run"?
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