[IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 25.06.2008 um 00:12 schrieb david at lang.hm:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> Am 24.06.2008 um 23:12 schrieb Frank Ch. Eigler:
>>
>>> The gist of the argument is that one can't currently know what's
>>> really inside an etoys image, except beyond what it itself tells us,
>>
>> This is indeed a valid concern. As I wrote before, an external tool
>> could be written to examine what exactly is in the image.
>>
>>> and cannot even be rebuilt from the sources it claims to contain.
>>
>>
>> "even be rebuilt from the sources" ... why would you want to do that?
>> It could be done, as well as you could tear down the Empire State
>> building and rebuild it from scratch, but why?
>
> leaving aside all the opensource arguments and just looking at it  
> from a purely pragmatic point of view:
>
> becouse paranoid people want to be able to verify that what's in the  
> blob is really what it claims to be.

That would be accomplished by the tool I mentioned above.

> and we need to support these paranoid people becouse there are  
> people who really are out to get us, and the small number of  
> paranoid people protect us all.


I think you forgot a smiley to mark this as sarcasm.

- Bert -