On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 11:42 -0600, Cam Desautels wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:21:30PM -0600, Cam Desautels wrote:
>
>>>http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2004/12/20/327511.aspx
>>
>>This is disgusting and annoying. The fact that he doesn't like that
>>firefox download is mirrored says nothing about the quality of the app.
>
>
> Seems like a reasonable point, though -- I doubt many people who download
> firefox from mirrors check to make sure the binary isn't trojaned. That
> could bite us sometime, and then it'd pretty much be Microsoft lauging.
True, but the tools are there. The checksums are available. If it
bites someone in the ass, it is only their fault for being lazy and not
utilizing the available tools.
All of this thread is offtopic.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PostIsOffTopic
Take it somewhere else if you want to talk about this.
-sv