[aklug] Re: Bigger threat than DNS

From: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
Date: Fri Jul 11 2008 - 06:44:53 AKDT

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> For Linux users, reports like these are far more worrisome than the DNS
> issue:
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/07/10/227220.shtml

I can't get to the original article Slashdot references since it appears
to be slashdotted at the moment. :-) However, having maintained AKLUG's
Red Hat mirror for a few years I can confirm that anyone can fire up a
mirror and be listed in a release announcement. Nobody was ever really
concerned about that because the package signatures should have prevented
a malicious mirror admin from tampering with them.

Arthur, can you give a quick summary of the original article?

Mike
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