[ale] OT: HTC Advice

[Jim Kinney]

It's hard to type in the binary for my compiler when my tin foil beanie
keeps slipping down obscuring my vision. I tried adding a chin strap but
that looked too dorky.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not to sound too fond of my tin foil beanie, but code on a web site is
> not
> > by default the exact same code released and installed. It would be a
> > terribly bad day for Google if that were the case.
> >
> > Is it possible to take the released source code and compile it and then
> do a
> > bitwise comparison or SHA256 sum of the binary on my phone to the
> compiled
> > version to look for a match?
>
> That approach will work as long as you trust your compiler. Ken
> Thompson's "Reflection on Trusting Trust" comes to mind.
>
> http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
>
> Though, I'd imagine that if there is a backdoor into the java
> compiler, oracle would probably know more about it than google.
>
> -Rev. Johnny Healey
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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