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Re: Unofficial binary Debian packages considered insecure?



Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:

> It's the reason why Debian has a maintainer application process,
> requires new maintainer gpg keys to be signed by existing developers,
> and requires all uploads to be gpg signed by a key in the Debian
> keyring.  Of course this doesn't prevent a Debian developer from doing
> evil things, but it makes it possible to track and permanently ban
> whoever did the evil things.

I don't think that he's talking about official sources, judging by the
subject.

-- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.

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