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What? Point me to a single piece of malware in any major distro's repositories; I'll wait.
by dTal 5y ago
What? Point me to a single piece of malware in any major distro's repositories; I'll wait.
- swiley 5y agoI'm certain stuff slips through occasionally, there's the random number generator "bug" that made it into debian a decade or so ago. The rate is fantastically lower than pretty much anything else though.
- pjmlp 5y agoSoftware most humans care to use on GNU/Linux isn't part of distro repositories. curl | sudo sh rulez!
- swiley 5y agoMost of it really is. When you need software that isn't well supported by your OS you're always going to have to apply some degree of care and research. Thinking that any degree of sandboxing or API re-arranging will ever make flinging binaries around safe is extremely naive and counter productive.