geni wrote:
On 1/8/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
We know the programmer intends it to do something simple and routine. We don't know if he has a secret plan (he doesn't, I am sure, but someone who doesn't know of him might not accept this),
The problem with that line of paranoia is that it doesn't trust someone enough to run code you can't see but at the same time trust them to give you the real code.
Of course, if the code that's been released doesn't match the code that's running, we can obviously note the problem. Not so if the code is held back, or only given to "trusted users," as subjective a criterion as you can get.
-Jeff