Port Selfupdate failed - Mountain Lion OS X

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 15:42:25 PDT 2014


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Lawrence Vel?zquez wrote:
>
> > > I'm able to run the selfudpate without any issues..
> >
> > Okay, that's well and good, but you still don't know whether anything
> > else has been trashed. Your /bin/sh was somehow replaced with a
> > *compiler*. Nothing is safe.
>
> Giggle.  Even then, nothing is safe; read the "Reflections on Trusting
> Trust" ACM paper some time.  Then weep.
>

Yes --- but, given that we're talking about OS X, that's Apple's problem.

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