From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T22:05:43+09:00
Subject: Re: A general doubt

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl> wrote:
> 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).

Can we stop using Hacker to describe computer criminals?  The two
aren't (necessarily) related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(Free_and_Open_Source_Software)

-greg



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