was: Re: How safe are Co language module downloads?

On 10/25/24 13:35, Anon Loli wrote:

[snip]    The more SLOC you have, the bigger chance is that there is evil hidden  somewhere.  All you need sometimes is 1 sneaky line amongst thousands, and sometimes even  millions SLOC.  

Anecdotally autos have over 10,000,000 lines of code.
Do you ride in one? Subways? Airplanes?

Imaigne if we all used same core hardware, imagine the amount of issues that  would simply parish.    [snip]

So some manufacturer just happens to insert man-in-the-middle attack hardware
in your CPU?
Oh... one already did.
Did someone handle your disk drive... oh! there's a firmware update port.
Why look at that network interface! My goodness! Writable firmware!

I've got a nice PDP11/45 with some RK05s you'd like.