[Wylug-help] ad/spyware

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, James Holden wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:21, John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Roger Leigh wrote:
>>
>>> There are no "wild" viruses for Linux, and spyware is not an issue
>>> given that software is not ever installed without your knowledge,
>>> providing you use common sense (use vendor packages, build from
>>> source).
>>
>> Protection afforded to you by building from source?
>>
>> jh
>
> You can verify the authenticity of the source using the gpg signatures
> from the authors. You can then be sure that no funny patches have been
> added by whoever built any binary packages you might otherwise use.

But that's not a benefit of building from source, that's a benefit of using
signatures.

jh

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