[conspire] computer security

[Tony Godshall]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:01 AM paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:
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> In Linux, virtually every thing most people need is available as a package from a standard repository for Debian, Ubuntu or other.  And using the package manager takes care of dependencies on other libraries so it is more likely that the newly downloaded program will run without manual fussing.
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> Of course this is not totally cyber-proof. I recall a few years back that a major Linux repository was hacked.

you are referring to kernel.org in 2011?

https://lwn.net/Articles/457142/

Tony