Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-13 Thread Alexander Karelas

A poster on slashdot has done some interesting research on whether an ISP that 
co-operates with the FBI can insert a trojan horse in your Debian machine. He 
demonstrates that it is easy:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24834cid=2697504

RedHat uses a PGP signature scheme. What are we doing about it?

Alex


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Re: Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-13 Thread Alexander Karelas

 unsuccessful:

E: Couldn't find package debsign

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:24:47PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 Previously Alexander Karelas wrote:
  RedHat uses a PGP signature scheme. What are we doing about it?
 
 apt-get install debsign
 


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Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-13 Thread Alexander Karelas
A poster on slashdot has done some interesting research on whether an ISP that 
co-operates with the FBI can insert a trojan horse in your Debian machine. He 
demonstrates that it is easy:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24834cid=2697504

RedHat uses a PGP signature scheme. What are we doing about it?

Alex



Re: Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-13 Thread Alexander Karelas
 unsuccessful:

E: Couldn't find package debsign

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:24:47PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 Previously Alexander Karelas wrote:
  RedHat uses a PGP signature scheme. What are we doing about it?
 
 apt-get install debsign
 



shutdown via webpage

2001-11-29 Thread Alexander Karelas
How about if a webpage was made on the server that would require user 
authentication and would execute a suid shutdown CGI script?