From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T20:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: A general doubt

Rock Roll <karoljouis@gmail.com> writes:

>>Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
>> Are you seriously suggesting that generic application software should
>> be able to withstand someone with root (and probably physical) access
>> to the machine it's running on for the purposes of keeping the
>> original author free from user complaints?
>
>
> Thank you for your reply. What i am telling is if if a hacker accesses 
> and changes some function in the code which is exposed in the 
> distributed application and not in the source code which is open. 
> Complaints may be in the form of bugs. In this case the user will 
> complain for some other reason. Pardon me if i am wrong in sense

You're not wrong. You're just approaching the problem the wrong
way. If a hacker has access to someone's computer, there is nothing an
application programmer can do about it - if an application *could* do
something about that, that would only create more problems (for
instance, your solution would basically mean that not even root would
be able to (un)install programs).

And the user will have a lot more problems on his hands anyway if some
uninvited person has access to his machine.

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