On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > T o n g wrote: > > 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. > > > > But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail saying: > > Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see <insert celebrity name here>'s > secret sex tape'. > > (Or some variation thereof.)
A Debian user should not be expected to install just any .deb file. This why this procedure should be relatively complicated (and it is, IIRC). But you're missing the real fun: http://lwn.net/Articles/319072/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
