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[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox UI in your language



On 12/03/2015 06:05 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi wrote:
> On 2015-12-03 at 10:12:13 +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote:
>> This is not too different from our relaxed policy of allowing many
>> developers to write to the repository (especially on Alioth).  Any of
>> their machines or SSH keys could get compromised and lead to malicious
>> commits to the repository, but that will be easily identified and fixed.
>>  We can treat Weblate as one of our developers.
> 
> Can they?
> 
> It is easy to verify that old commits haven't been rewritten, but adding
> a new, harmless looking, commit in the name of some existing dev isn't
> that hard, and probably likely to pass unnoticed.
> 
> http://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story.html
> 

Thank you for sharing.  I have not read fully yet, but signed commits
and automatic verification are something have to do in FreedomBox (I
hope soon).

-- 
Sunil

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