Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond
Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond
Posted Feb 25, 2016 22:48 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)In reply to: Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond by gnu
Parent article: Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond
And those instructions are far too complex to expect more than a few people to do it. The problem of hijacked web pages would have to get a lot worse than it is before users would find that worthwhile.
Could the web browser take care of all this? It already has a web of trust for use in authenticating websites; how hard would it be for the web browser to validate a signed checksum and check the checksum when it downloads a file?
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