On 12/11/2009 10:49 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 12/11/2009 08:34 PM, Tim wrote: >> It'll take quite some effort, not impossible, but very >>> difficult, to get a signed compromising package into the repos. >> >> Unfortunately, I don't think it's that difficult. Why do you believe it is? > > It does at least require the cooperation of an insider. To me, that > raises the bar quite a bit. Actually, no it doesn't. I can pretend to be a useful upstream and eventually distributions will pick it up. I can also be a package maintainer and purposefully push a trojan horse in an update. There are many attack vectors. People who are signing the updates are not going to be able to do detailed code reviews. Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
