Re: In Praise of Red Hat

On 10/07/2009, at 00:02 , Al MailingList wrote:

> "haven't got a rogue ISO that's been maliciously attacked"? So if they
> put an iso on their front page anyone can download, I should be
> worried it has been hacked? I'm not sure I follow?

If someone else hosts a "RedHat ISO", chances are it's dodgey. Perhaps  
it comes with a bunch of spyware and zombie processes running by  
default. Who knows. You could spend your time trying to audit the  
package, but who's to say they haven't included broken 'ps' and other  
tools so you'd never know what your installation was actually doing.

What it boils down to is: don't trust people you don't know

Alex




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