Re: Firefox without signature checking

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Leonid Isaev writes:

> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 12:18:36AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> How is that stupid?  Do you check the sources with each release?  *How*
>> do you perform those checks?
>
> OK, fact #0 - I only use software whose upstream I trust.

How do you establish that trust?

> Having said that, I usually pull md5sums and sha*sums in the PKGBUILD, all from
> different sources (upstream, Debian, Gentoo, etc.), if the src is not
> upstream-signed. FF releases _are_ signed (I don't know why the PKGBUILD in
> [extra] doesn't check that), so just have the Mozilla signing key (currently
> 0x61B7B526D98F0353) in your keychain.
>
> If you trust random people in the AUR and never inspect their PKGUILDs, or even
> worse, use their binaries, you deserve to be rooted.

Ah, you mean you check the origins of the source code, not the source
code itself.  My bad.

/M

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