On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 08:19 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> writes: > > > How much do you trust your USB drive? It could have a malicious > > controller that detects when the correct Fedora files are written to > > it, and replaces with hacked copies. And when you try to verify the > > copy, it detects this and returns the SHA1 (or any other checksum) of > > the original files. > > How would the USB drive tell whether you were reading the file to > verify its checksum or to use its contents?
Because you forgot to make sure that the tin foil fit tightly. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294072117.2224.20.ca...@kestrel
