On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Jhfjjf Hfdsjj <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:09:27 BST, Mario Vilas said: >>> >>> >Just signing the update packages prevents this attack, so it's not that >>> >hard >>>> to fix. >>> >>> Except if a signing key gets compromised, as happened to one Linux vendor >>> recently, causing a lot of kerfluffle... > >>??? Are you ptoposing to throw the baby out with the bath water ??? I >>would not have expected that from *.edu. > > I do not believe anyone is 'ptoposing' anything. All he said was that package > signing should not be taken as a silver bullet, for experience has shown that > the key's themselves are capable of being compromised if a vendor is > successfully attacked. > > Exactly what I would expect from *.edu I read differently,
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