Launchpad has imported 3 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169190.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-08-15T18:15:44+00:00 Kde-gj5 wrote: Version: (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux Generally other package managers (e.g apt or synaptic) warn the user if packages are unsigned. While this might have at one point been a nice to have feature, in the current era of DNS cache poisoning attacks package signatures are the only guarantee we have that the package being installed is authentic. This is essential. In the past, I would have categorized this as a wish, but no longer. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adept/+bug/256245/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-08-15T18:21:04+00:00 mornfall wrote: The possibility of attack has been roughly the same, DNS poisoning or not. I don't think the risk is nowadays any higher than it's been a few years ago. (Really, do you know how efficient are http certificate warnings? Below 1 %, at least that's a quote from a private study evaluating man-in-the-middle attacks against https. Sad, I know. But users generally just ignore security warnings. I have no idea why, really.) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adept/+bug/256245/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-09-21T04:44:18+00:00 adaptee wrote: Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years. Use muon[1] as replacement . [1] https://launchpad.net/muon Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adept/+bug/256245/comments/21 ** Changed in: adeptmgr Status: Confirmed => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kpackagekit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256245 Title: Kubuntu GUI package manager does not warn if packages are unsigned To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/adeptmgr/+bug/256245/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
