RE: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request

> At 00:19 16/11/2000, Myke Hines wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev@zend.com] > >Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:13 PM > >To: Rasmus Lerdorf > >Cc: Sterling Hughes; php-dev@lists.php.net > >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