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> You can trust your Linux box with your self-compiled kernel Can you? If we're going this far, you can't trust the compiler either.

• seba_dos1 4y ago
  At some arbitrary point you just decide that the risk is small enough for you to be comfortable with it.
  • Aeolun 4y ago
    And that comes when you self compile your kernel? Seems like an odd point to stop. Like, the chances of someone sneaking something terrible into an open source kernel seem lower than of any of the hardware coming out of China to be poisoned.
    • staunton 4y ago
      > Like, the chances of someone sneaking something terrible into an open source kernel seem lower than of any of the hardware coming out of China to be poisoned. what causes you to think that? For example, how often has there been something terrible inside an OS kernel? How much poisoned Chinese hardware are you aware of?