Hmm. On further inspection, it appears that you're right.
So I suppose my "bug" is that debian appears not to give a crap about people monitoring who is downloading which packages and isn't providing their repositories via https. Or ftps. Or, really, via *any* confidential mechanism. Signatures are a half-measure; they provide for integrity/ source authentication, but not for confidentiality. Anyway, as you say that's a different issue and shouldn't be confused with this same bug. Bear
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