<div class="gmail_extra">It's hard to type in the binary for my compiler when my tin foil beanie keeps slipping down obscuring my vision. I tried adding a chin strap but that looked too dorky.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rev.null@gmail.com" target="_blank">rev.null@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Not to sound too fond of my tin foil beanie, but code on a web site is not<br>
> by default the exact same code released and installed. It would be a<br>
> terribly bad day for Google if that were the case.<br>
><br>
> Is it possible to take the released source code and compile it and then do a<br>
> bitwise comparison or SHA256 sum of the binary on my phone to the compiled<br>
> version to look for a match?<br>
<br>
</div>That approach will work as long as you trust your compiler. Ken<br>
Thompson's "Reflection on Trusting Trust" comes to mind.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/%7Eganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Though, I'd imagine that if there is a backdoor into the java<br>
compiler, oracle would probably know more about it than google.<br>
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-Rev. Johnny Healey<br>
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