Fedora News Updates #1

[Andy Green]

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On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:12, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

> I hope Fedora News stops instructing newbies to use root for anything
> (including making RPMS from software obtained without any checks).
>
> If people start getting used to do it, pretty soon now we'll have
> viruses. No, seriously.

This is the tip of an iceberg.  For example, how many binary RPMs have we 
installed on our machines, signed or unsigned?  Its possible that the 
signer's machines were compromised, or upstream sources attacked and then the 
results signed... and we have to install RPMs as root, so the scripts inside 
them run as root... for unsigned RPMs you are forced to trust the packager's 
good faith.

- -Andy
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