Re: [Full-disclosure] Gödel and kernel backdoors

[Georgi Guninski <guninski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:21:35PM +0200, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> On the other hand, It is possible to "detect all bad programs" if it is
> allowed to err on the safe side and mistake some good programs for bad
> programs. An extreme example is to call all programs bad unless their
> exact code appears on the list of known good programs.
>


i doubt this can be remotely implemented in practice because of dynamic code 
like |eval| and mobile code.

can |code| be realistically distinguished from |data| for current OSes
(e.g. is a vim modeline *only a* plain string or a string + program) ?



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