A warning on debian-multimedia.org
A warning on debian-multimedia.org
[Distributions] Posted Jun 5, 2013 13:32 UTC (Wed) by corbet
The May "Bits from the Debian Project Leader" posting includes a notice
that the debian-multimedia.org domain — once the site of a popular Debian
package repository — has expired and been grabbed by an unknown entity. If
any Debian users have references to that site in their APT configurations,
now would be a good time to take them out. As Lucas Nussbaum says:
"This is a good example of the importance of the use of cryptography
to secure APT repositories (and of the importance of not blindly adding
keys).
"