On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:17:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Regarding to security. Assumed somebody always sign the mails to a > mailing list. Isn't it possible that somebody hacks the view of a > mailing list archive? Make it look like if a nice guy said odd things > for signed mails. He never did, the mails were not hacked, just the view > of the web page is hacked.
They could, if you were relying on the mailing list archives to verify the signatures, but they don't. You can fetch the signature and the original message (awkward from a web mailing list archive, but Camaleón has shown a way of doing it with gmane in the past) and perform the verification yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120510161127.GB14319@debian
