Installing a compiler by default

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 12 June 2006 03:13, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 22:16 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 07:04 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > > I don't understand the resistance to installing gcc and friends. Is
> > > there some kind of religious controversy involved of which I'm unaware?
> >
> > If you consider "security best practices" to be "religion", then I guess
> > yes, your lack of knowledge of them may be the source of your confusion.
> >
> > I recommend reading "Practical Unix and Internet Security", available
> > from O'Reilly and Associates, as a good starting point.
>
> I've talked to some very well known security experts about this and they
> agree that it's BS.  The presense of a C compiler does not compromise
> system security.
>
Who? Can we have links to web pages etc. to read for ourselves? (Presumably 
there are some available).

Sasha