Re: "For What It's Worth" (or How do I know my Gentoo source code hasn't been messed with?)

On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:50:35 -0700
Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I use Chrome. How do I know Chrome isn't scanning my local drives
> and sending stuff somewhere? I don't.
> 

It wouldn't have to scan your local drives.  It would only have
to scan the very few directories named "MY DOCUMENTS" and
"MY VIDEOS" and "MY EMAIL" which have conveniently been established
by the omnipotent and omniscient desktop environment.  Within
these universal and standardized storage areas can be found
everything that snooping software would need to find.

I am only being partly facetious. This does represent the trend.
We have standardized locations that are shared across many different
programs.  But the programs aren't really different because they
are produced by the same desktop conglomerate or because they
must employ the toolkits and widgets of said conglomerate.

The job of the NSA is getting easier.  Those terrorist documents
will no longer be buried within terabytes of disjoint hard drive
space.  They will all be nicely tucked into an "ALL DOCUMENTS ARE HERE"
standardized directory that nobody had better modify because
the entire system will crash.