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Re: Unable to compile cygwin


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> But, then, why should your boss trust me to be giving you the right
> information?  I might be maliciously steering you towards corrupted code
> which was specially intended to subvert your security...

What he's not saying here is that secretly he has committed the Special
Meanness (tm) code into the gcc core, so that even if you recompile your
compiler[1] you still get meanness.

[1] http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

Brian

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