Belabela,

Publicly editable does not mean it's insecure.  The Wiki does keep track
of all edits so that an audit can happen.  By your theory the
information you linked to on Wikipedia is insecure as well, because I
can go and edit it freely and forge all kinds of information.  HTTPS
does not make an editable wiki more secure.

Aside from that, you can also compare each version (edit.)  You would
need to compromise the back-end to the wiki to forge the edit, and even
then an admin can go back and revert the edit and disclose the false
edit warning the community at large that a compromise happened and that
they should validate their ISO's if downloaded during that given time
frame.

To also note, everything on those mirrors is directly from Ubuntu, they
do not create the sums themselves and Ubuntu provides sums, as you can
clearly see here at
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/release/SHA256SUMS  and
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/release/SHA1SUMS.

As far as the HTTPS, my suggestion is that you create a separate bug for
that and request that they add HTTPS to the CDIMAGE site.

** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Opinion

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