Re: Viruses

[mark hoist nlcomm com]

> Lauris, I am not sure either of your ideas would really help.
> Signed packages won't do much good (since anyone could sign one).
> It might make people a little bit more picky about who their
> packages came from, but then again, they might just see "this rpm is
> signed by random key, so it should be safe" and not worry about it.

If gnome.org assigns an official package signer then this would work,
for gnome at least.  do you know how signing works?  It proves that
the signer has a specific private key.

Mark