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Re: Evilgrade 2.0 - the update explotation framework is back


From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:13:33 -0400

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:36 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:09:27 BST, Mario Vilas said:

Just signing the update packages prevents this attack, so it's not that hard
to fix.

Except if a signing key gets compromised, as happened to one Linux vendor
recently, causing a lot of kerfluffle...
??? Are you ptoposing to throw the baby out with the bath water ??? I
would not have expected that from *.edu.

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