> On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> > > But, how can you trust the real Squid anyway?
> >
> > Huh?
>
> Well, if you're going to be paranoid about middle-man attacks, why not be
> paranoid about the squid authors grabbing your /etc/passwd and sending it
> off to the squid authors?
>
> Ok, it's a bit far-fetched, but it is a good habit to browse through the
> sources to look for anything strange, as well as looking at any patches
> that you add in to your squid source tree.
>
> Isn't that one of the main points of why open-source software is so good?
If you're so worried then go and spend some money :)
Cheers
Steve
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Received on Tue Jun 09 1998 - 00:33:22 MDT
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