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RE: cygwin CD question
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 00:06:29 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygwin CD question
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:11:08PM -0700, William V. Nicholson wrote:
> >The point is that if you are really paranoid about these things then
> >someone might slip in a trojan or backdoor while you are downloading
> >Cygwin. Obviously, if you subsequently set up an integrity tool then
> >your system together with the backdoor would check out as okay
> >(possibly until it got infected with a second backdoor or whatever).
>
> So, the alternative is to trust that someone else has better security
> than you do and trust their CD offering?
>
> That doesn't sound paranoid enough to me.
Like I always say, you can never be too paranoid.
Can you?
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
;-)
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