>>>>> "Moritz" == Moritz Mühlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> writes:

    Moritz> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 12:00:22PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
    >> 
    >> Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal
    >> 
    >> Hi.  As discussed in
    >> 
https://cointelegraph.com/news/phishing-attack-on-electrum-wallet-nets-hacker-almost-1-million-in-hours-report
    >> the version of electrum in sid is vulnerable to mallware and has
    >> been disabled by the electrum servers.  So basically the version
    >> in sid is only useful for getting your bitcoin phished.  At least
    >> until this version is updated it should be removed.  See #921688
    >> for details.

    Moritz> We have poor means for people to detect that a package has
    Moritz> been removed from the archive (and needs local removal); an
    Moritz> alternative might be to NMU in sid so that it sys.exit()s
    Moritz> with a message stating that running Electrum is dangerous
    Moritz> and has been enabled and only proceed with the removal in a
    Moritz> few weeks?

At that point we could simply leave it until the new version comes
along.
If people want this solution I can make the NMU.

--Sam

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