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I would expect Google and similarly enormous companies to have a process in place to keep rogue agents from inserting backdoors and malicious code.
by mkr-hn 13y ago
I would expect Google and similarly enormous companies to have a process in place to keep rogue agents from inserting backdoors and malicious code.
- hackula1 13y agoWhile this another angle, I was referring to the fact that many people will see these engineers as immoral and spineless. I know that I would not hire the person who drew that smiley face or any of their accomplices.
- w_t_payne 13y agoAnd if you did hire that person, I would never trust you again with my business.
- w_t_payne 13y agoYou have to trust your developers. You can do audits, but the problem is intractably difficult. Developers have a TREMENDOUS amount of power. Trust is absolutely, utterly, irreconcilably fundamental to the job. If you cannot trust your developers, you are screwed every which way to Sunday. If your developers are compromised, you have to assume that your whole business is compromised.
- andyzweb 13y agohttp://xkcd.com/898/ http://xkcd.com/898/