Re: Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-05-23 Thread Adam McKenna
> they get one and only one chance to do something that stupid. So the answer is that we have no way of preventing a developer from intentionally sabotaging a package in any / as many ways as they choose and the only risk to them is losing their uploader access after the fact? >the response is sw

Re: Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-05-23 Thread lkcl
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 7:59 PM Adam McKenna wrote: > You are talking about a deterrent though. I think the question is, > what if someone cares more about their political cause than > retaining their uploader access? they get one and only one chance to do something that stupid. > What if someo

Re: Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-05-23 Thread Adam McKenna
> anyone stupid enough to abuse their position may only do so once, at which point their GPG key is revoked. You are talking about a deterrent though. I think the question is, what if someone cares more about their political cause than retaining their uploader access? What if someone's keys are

Re: Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-05-23 Thread Adam McKenna
> i believe the answer is in the question. debian is based on distributed trust. i did the analysis (took 3 weeks): it is literally the only distro in the world with an inviolate chain of trust from a large keyring dating back 20 years that is itself GPG-signed as a package, with a package distrib