*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***

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1. Go to <http://www.ubuntu.com/>.
2. Follow the most obvious route to download the recommended version of Ubuntu 
for PC.

What happens: You end up downloading Ubuntu over HTTP.

What should happen: The download is over HTTPS.

An attacker with sufficient savvy and bandwidth could MITM your local
Ubuntu mirror, serving you an ISO of something that looked and worked
like Ubuntu but did all kinds of nefarious things.

The equivalent for software updates is bug 1186793.

[Originally reported by Tony Webster of "HTTP Shaming".
<http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/95277096082/problem-1-the-iso-for-
ubuntu-is-downloaded-via>]

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Won't Fix


** Tags: bot-comment
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Ubuntu ISOs downloaded insecurely, over HTTP rather than HTTPS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1359836
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