Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update

William Hooper whooperhsd at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 18:11:49 UTC 2004


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:07:04 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
<kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> man, 25.10.2004 kl. 00.36 skrev Ben Steeves:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:35:17 +0200, Sindre Pedersen Bjordal
> > <foolish at fedoraforum.org> wrote:
> > > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=119734#post119734
[snip]
> 
> Just shows how important it is to have signed packages...

If you are following random e-mails and installing packages outside of
the normal yum/up2date channels, signed packaged don't do a bit of
good.

Come on, the frauds could have just as easily put instructions to
install a GPG key as the first step and people that fall for it would
be none the wiser.




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