Secrecy and user trust

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 16:27:26 UTC 2008


On 02/09/2008, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> If there is a known date before which packages can be trusted, that
> should be said. Users who lag the cutting edge will be reassured. People
> won't have to be checking security logs for a decade if the problem is
> more recent. People on distributions older than FC8 which are not
> maintained should be told if the problem goes back that far.

The infrastructure is up and running. We have been told that new
updates will be made available as soon as they (and existing content)
have been signed with a new key. They have announced that they do not
believe there is any risk from existing content. What do you want to
know?




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