Re: Fedora Core 2 Test 2 - delayed

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hello Russell,

> If the NSA people were going to do something nasty why would they do it in 
> code that's got their name on it when they could send in code from 
> random_user hotmail com?

Because such a large patch coming from random_user would raise some
eyebrows, and small patches are not easy to hide such nasty buglets in.
All it takes is a single overflow in the right location... The Trojan
horse was also a "friendly gift".

It's just you can't be careful enough with respect to trusting (foreign)
security agencies ;-) .

Leonard.

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