From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA security Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:35:45 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bod1kqm6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8738zf70ep.fsf@riseup.net> <871uejlbm1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k3rrr31g.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <874nium8h0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bod1h7d3.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357569903 30754 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2013 14:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:45:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 15:45:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsDwy-0001Bt-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:45:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45469 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsDwi-00025w-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:45:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsDwe-00025M-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsDwd-0007fT-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsDrx-0006es-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsDs0-0000dQ-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: from c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([65.96.148.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:40:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J3e+Q+phd5Q0hJLJoo4sFYqhJQk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156115 Archived-At: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:17:36 +0530 Jambunathan K wrote: JK> I have never even thought of verifying my Emacs, ever. If Emacs, JK> happened to carry a virus or if the rumour-mills go abuzzing about virus JK> infiltration or if AV packages go bonkers, I may become extra paranoid. JK> Also, when I am downloading stuff from a distributor I implicitly trust JK> shouldn't I be doing good. Can I not rely on the distributor to do the JK> due diligence? How do you know that distributor.com is who they say they are? What if there's a break-in at the distributor.com site and malicious code is brought online? These are not theoretical situations. They have happened many times. Ted