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RE: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

> At 00:19 16/11/2000, Myke Hines wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev <email protected>]
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:13 PM
> >To: Rasmus Lerdorf
> >Cc: Sterling Hughes; php-dev <email protected>
> >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request
> >
> >
> > > If you see patches flowing in from
> > >that guy, and they look ok, it means two things - he's unlikely to be a
> > >hacker, and he's probably in a real need for a CVS account.
> >
> >I think that is totally not true.. you can't tell if a person is a hacker
> >just because they do a couple of good patches..
>
>
> You can't tell for sure. For all you know, you could argue that I (Zeev)
> might be an undercover Bin Laden agent, in one of the most successful
> undercover missions in history, trying to bring down the entire
> imperialistic American web. Possible, but unlikely.

I dunno, I have often suspected that to be true.

> I gather that someone committing legitimate patches may still be a hacker,
> but the likelihood goes down, significantly.

And if he is sending us good patches to gain trust, great. Once he sends
the nasty patch, even if it takes us a little while to catch it, we can
roll back the bad ones and keep the good ones and in the end we are ahead.

-Rasmus 

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