From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phkphk.freebsd.dk)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2006 - 14:26:50 CDT

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In message <20060810130331.X941423jane.math.ualberta.ca>, Barkley Vowk writes:
>On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> The Atheros driver in FreeBSD is maintained and compiled by Sam Leffler,
>> who has been around since BSD 4.2 in the early eighties sometimes.
>>
>> I trust Sam.
>
>I don't think that quite answers his question however. Its not so much a
>matter of trusting Sam, but a matter of trusting that Sam had enough
>access to the binary objects in question to have eliminated the errors in
>them.

Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code.

And it is a matter of trust.

Unless you are willing to stand up can swear that you have never
run a single line of code which you have not inspected and throught
about yourself, then you implicitly have to trust the programmer.

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