Re: gsu (Was Re: More Political Stuff)

[Nathan Hurst <njh hawthorn csse monash edu au>]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Kjartan Maraas wrote:

> Maybe a way to disable the themeability would be nice for the
> security-minded? Would it be possible to do that easily? Sort
> of like uninstalling Windows scripting host on MS Windows :)

No, it is a general problem - you simply need to be able to ensure that
the software you are running is safe, and the only way to do that is to
examine the binaries by hand, instruction by instruction.  This is why we
need a checksum service and some trust passing software for all the
repositories.

njh