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RE: Linux Users in Danger - Secure your PC Immediately
This only affects Debian based systems like Debian, Slackware, and Ubuntu. To affect the computer you have to have a Man-in-the-middle attack meaning that somebody should set up a false repository for this to work. I would just update my Debian based system fast as possible.
People, like me, using rpm-based systems (fedora, Suse, Mageia) should not be affected by this.
Yep, the
...is overblown.
I would have said:
...is wrong :)
I thought Slackware has its own packaging system that's entirely different from .deb, or at least it used to be. I was a Slackware user in the mid-nineties.
No, I looked it up and you are right. Seems to be called pkgtool. My mistake.
http://www.slackbook.org/html/package-management.html
Most people do use Debian and Ubuntu.
Why keep this up? Why not say: "I overreacted."
You say overreaction, I say precaution.
Well, suit yourself.