On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:25:35 -0500, H.S. wrote: > In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that > it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad intentioned > debs or rpms on the internet. If Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora were to become > sufficiently popular, the claim is that it would be just as easy and > popular to infect these OSes by making a user install something like > NakedBrittany.deb as is now the case with Windows users.
Don't know where you get it from, but seem to me the person who made such claims is a clueless Linux newbie himself. Debian have package signature signing and checking years ago, even for non-official repos. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
