[Discuss] Linux Mint backdoored

[Deryk Barker (Honorary Colleague)]

However, anyone who downloaded the ISO and then checked the md5 checksum would have known  there was a problem.

Moral....

deryk
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Deryk Barker, Faculty Emeritus
Computer Science Department
Camosun College, Victoria BC

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Interesting.

So how can we be sure of the other distros?

I guess it's still less exposure of privacy to use most linux distros.

The question is, what's better?; the NSA get your info, Walmart, or
hackers?

Or are  hackers just the mafia version of Walmart
and invasive government now?


P


On 16-02-21 02:50 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
> So, this happened:
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3035682/security/hackers-planted-a-backdoor-inside-a-compromised-version-of-linux-mint.html
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> -- Darren Duncan
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