From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, rb-general@lists.reproducible-builds.org,
bootstrappable@freelists.org
Subject: Re: GNU Mes 0.24 released
Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 00:34:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0axynso.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fslr4xqd.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Mon, 02 May 2022 20:04:42 +0200")
Heya,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
> Mes has now been ported to M2-Planet and can be bootstrapped using
> stage0-posix[0], starting from the 357-byte hex0 binary of the
> bootstrap-seeds[1], as was promised at FOSDEM'21[2].
This is amazing… congrats to you & everyone involved! You made it! :-)
The ability to build literally everything from source, with reproducible
builds, is a game changer IMO when it comes to supply chain security.
The common objection is: “you’re building from source but you’re not
gonna audit all that source code anyway, so why bother?” I think it’s
akin to security by obscurity. That we collectively can and do fiddle
with all this code makes a practical difference; that this is all
transparent means that backdoors become harder to hide.
Supply chain security is a spectrum and I think this achievement changes
what we can expect and demand.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-07 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-02 18:04 GNU Mes 0.24 released Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2022-05-07 22:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-05-07 23:11 ` Larry Doolittle
2022-05-08 13:55 ` Sébastien Lerique
2022-05-08 19:49 ` Larry Doolittle
2022-05-09 14:00 ` indieterminacy
2022-05-09 0:03 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2022-05-09 20:22 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
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