Question from London Redhat Forum – Has RedHat been spooked? (mailman.lug.org.uk)

Could have been a joke. But if you want to recompile everything, make sure you get your compiler from a different source.[1]

But I really have to object to the following:

"and thus subject to the demands of the NSA (via the Patriot act or whatever)"

I spent almost 2 years writing about the USA Patriot Act on Wikipedia. Try to do some research before referencing it :-)

1. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack

I think in the future ,binary -> compiled verification, will be very big.