[WikiEN-l] New bot up for RFA

[James Hare]

Security through obscurity.

I'm sure if you asked the guy he'll give you the code, but keeping the code
concealed may be a good thing because it'll stave off the bot being
compromised for some time.

On 1/8/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/8/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > geni wrote:
> > > On 1/8/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at 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.
>
> If the bot starts doing things out of spec I don't think we will need
> the code to know that. No the paranoid arugment fails.
>
> --
> geni
>
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