Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Oct 25 18:46:29 UTC 2004


man, 25.10.2004 kl. 20.11 skrev William Hooper:
> 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.

you are right. just put it in the script.

These frauds are damn impossible to protect against...




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