On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:31 PM, <freenet.10.technomation at recursor.net>wrote:

> The repo poisoning issue is a canard - Maven checks the hashes and sig's
>

Checking hashes and signatures is hardly a cast-iron guarantee against Maven
repo poisoning.  If someone can slip a subtle vulnerability into the source
of any Maven dependency then no amount of hash or signature checking will
detect it.

Not that I'm opposed to switching to Maven (or perhaps Ivy, given that Maven
pom files are horrible to work with), but let's at least acknowledge risks
where they exist.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke
Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/
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