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- From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
- Subject: Re: "risky" PD software
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.010336.4750@uwm.edu>
- Originator: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <7796821@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:03:36 GMT
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- From article <7796821@MVB.SAIC.COM>, by "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>:
- > I don't understand: how is running PD software risky if the user has access
- > to files he is not supposed to show to anyone? Specifically, why is it more
- > risky than running Wordperfect etc.?
- >
- Running any software is risky. However I feel that commerical software
- companies are less likely to produce code that has trojan horse code in it.
- Also commerical software is normally obtained through a more secure method
- than PD software is. A shrink wrapped disk or a tape is less likely to have
- been tampered with than a copy of a PD program obtained from a bulletin board.
- I doubt there is anything funny about the copy of TeX at U of Washington. A
- lot of people have gotten a copy from there and if there were problems with it,
- something would have been posted about it by now.
-