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@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/8/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
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.
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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