> On Friday 17 Oct 2003 16:49 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
>
>>>DNS poisioning when you downloaded the patch file, for instance.
>>>On UNIX boxes, a local attacker could have altered an alias for a common
>>>command to fetch, compile and insert a Nasty kernel module and then
>>>waited for you to run that command.
>>
>>That is what checksums are for.
>
> Doesn't help - where did you get the checksums from ?
From a different machine of course.
Jochem
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