CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

[Tim]

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:22 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> From talking to numerous novice users in the design of the site I'm
> not convinced that a checksum file is something that novice users are
> aware of or much concerned about.

Ignorance is no excuse, as they old saying goes, and it's something that
needs brought to their attention, with the full how and why.

> The main download link points directly to Fedora's main server, not a
> mirror, so they'd be downloading the checksum from the same source as
> the payload anyway.

And the non-main download links...?

It was always the recommendation, before, to not download from the main
site, to spread the load around the mirrors.

> When you burn the iso to media it has a built-in media check as well
> which would protect against corruption

Only against corruptions at that point, not against malicious damage.
If someone's capable of releasing a compromised ISO, they're capable of
making it claim to pass its own self checks.

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