[Gllug] Yet another M$ worm!

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 23 Sep Paul Weaver wrote:
> I doubt many linux users would fall for an email from Linus patching the 
> latest kernel - however I do worry about a (man in the middle?) attack on 
> debian's apt servers. I just run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade every so 
> often, if someone had cracked the servers a lot of people would get infected 
> before reading the usual sites/email lists. 

Signature checking is being built into the various bits of apt, last i
heard.  Since all packages are signed by the DD who uploaded them, this
isn't rocket science.  It's a tad irritating it's not there already
really.

doug.

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