[ale] Linux Mint Hacked

[Chuck Payne]

Sorry to see that happen to Mint. I know a lot of people that use it
over Ubuntu.  I was posted it a lot of mailing list and new sites.

This why I am not crazy about git and docker and other things that
place on the web, they will get hacked, it's just a matter of when.
But yet some many are pushing to use those. Maybe I am old, but the
though of grading something of docker and setting up, and not
questioning if it same what scares me the most. I got devops users
that think that if from a site it safe.

FYI, I use private git servers and save locally docker.

So question, how are they going to fix it? How many of you when you
down load an ISO run the SHA1 against the distro to make sure it same,
I guess if I was a cracker, I would replace the SHA1 keys so that no
one knows it was cracked.

What safe guards could be put in place to stop this?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:14 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> MP3 audio:
>  US Patent #: 5,579,430
>  US Patent #: 6,185,539
>  US Patent #: 6,009,399
>  US Patent #: 5,924,060
>  US Patent #: 5,703,999
>
> Last one expires Expires: December 30, 2017 - not that much longer to
> wait. http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
>
> "Gray areas?" We can disagree about patents and the use of them, but
> today, this is the law.
>
> So - only use Opus instead for audio (Opus is "better" than Ogg, AAC,
> MP3 at the same bitrate).  But many HW players won't support it, so be
> certain to choose that hardware carefully. Native Opus support exists in
> Android, but there were/are reported issues, like having to use the .ogg
> extension and not being able to read any tags.
>
>
> On 02/22/16 10:37, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
>> What laws?  Some gray area video/audio codecs, or something else?
>> Allen B.
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of DJ-Pfulio [DJPfulio at jdpfu.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 9:33 AM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux Mint Hacked
>>
>> On 02/22/16 09:59, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> I’m kind of surprised no one has mentioned it on the list this morning.
>>>
>>> http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I thought Keith posted here about it yesterday.  Plus, the Mint
>> distribution violates some US laws, so ...
>>
>>
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