[3980] in Athena Bugs
Re: XLogin source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Mon Jan 15 21:09:40 1990
From: Henry Mensch <henry@MIT.EDU>
To: cfields@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 15 Jan 90 21:00:35 -0500.
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 90 21:09:15 EST
There are many ways that trojan horses can be introduced into the
Athena workstation system (or any system, for that matter); restricting
availability of source code is not the way to prevent them.
In general, we only restrict the readability of source code when we
have to (which usually means when copyright or licensing restrictions
require this).
Thanks for taking the time to express your concern about this.
-- Henry Mensch / <henry@MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
