December 14, 2006
Communicating Securely in an Insecure Medium > Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses: "One of the most famous results in computer science is that it is provably impossible to be able to tell what an arbitrary program will do by looking at it1, so certainly it would be impossible to tell, in general, whether the program had any unpleasant side effects besides its intended purpose. But that's not the real problem. The real problem is that nobody looks."
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