> How weird. Who wants to install an OS without being able to verify the image seal? Downloading through HTTPS may be MITM'ed, or the image replaced on the serv

> How weird. Who wants to install an OS without being able to verify the image seal? Downloading through HTTPS may be MITM'ed, or the image replaced on the server. While it should be fixed I think your overstating the importance here. 99.999% of the world doesn't care about that; No one who installed Windows verified the image. No one who installed macOS verified the image. No one who gets a notebook from a store verifies the install. Let alone everyone who runs stuff in the cloud on a VM, those people have no way at all to verify the OS they are actually running. > It may be part of the reasons why FreeBSD has way less users than it could and should. Linux became popular over BSD mostly due to the unix wars [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars