Problem (was: Re: need help with tool requirement)
    Bill Freeman 
    f at ke1g.mv.com
       
    Wed Apr 21 08:22:01 EDT 2004
    
    
  
bmcculley at rcn.com writes:
...
 > What approach would provide sufficient assurance that the code
 > does not contain any "Easter eggs" or trap doors to allow
 > future egg-laying?
	Heavily reviewed OSS (note not necessarily FOSS)?
	But then how can you be sure that the binary delivered was
compiled by an un-hacked compiler and linked against un-hacked
libraries?  Risk runs as far as you want to take it.
							Bill
    
    
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