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Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes



On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote:
> [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?
>
>      $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb

What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?
sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / Movie

Neither is an actual security issue.

> and the
> other thru a poorly-working (official) Debian patch to ssh. (Or was
> it SSL?)

I don't recall this actually causing the Debian servers to be compromised.
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