<p dir="ltr">On 18 Mar 2015 12:59 pm, "Christopher Browne" <<a href="mailto:cbbrowne@gmail.com">cbbrowne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p dir="ltr">> Instead, I'll step back to Thompson's paper...<br>
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> "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally<br>
> create yourself."</p>
<p dir="ltr">This whole conversation/hissy-fit is missing yet another problem. Even Ken Thompson wrote code with bugs and constructed code vulnerable to exploitation. I certainly don't blindly trust the code I write - I make the confident assumption that it is buggy and possibly dangerous. If anyone on Earth wrote a program that actually addressed my needs I wouldn't be writing the code at all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Trusting something so complicated it requires a computer to interpret and run it is a challenge. Many approaches are being explored, differences of opinion are being generated constantly. That's OK.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are a lot of things that are now standard that are based on history rather than good theoretical bases.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's look at working solutions, ask questions and try to be friendly and a little more understanding.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is no right way, and priorities differ.</p>