[FYI] Why Microsoft 'Shared Source' can never be trusted
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Why Microsoft 'Shared Source' can never be trusted
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 17/03/2004 at 03:30 GMT
Yesterday we recounted the tale of how at the height of the Cold War
Soviet infrastructure had been penetrated by software containing
Trojans. Retired spook and nuclear scientist Thomas Reed claims that
the United States provided compromised software to the USSR which
detonated the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline. The Cold War's over, but
we suggested that without an open toolchain - unless users could also
inspect the source code for the tools used to build the OS -
initiatives such as Microsoft's Shared Source program are worthless
PR exercises.
But that's not quite right, as a few of you have pointed out. So
let's correct that. Even with an open toolchain, initiatives such as
Microsoft's Shared Source program are worthless PR exercises.
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