Journal nizo's Journal: The Fedora disks I just bought have a backdoor in them? 9
My last journal was about my attempt to get some Fedora Core 4 disks from a company sent overnight. Now that they finally arrived a week later, I did a checksum on the first disk and it doesn't match the fedora checksum page. Here is the story I submitted to slashdot (which will probably get rejected) but I think it is really important for people to be aware of this:
Recently I ordered a set of Fedora Core 4 disks from this company. Once the disks arrived I did a checksum on the image of the first disk, and to my suprise I discovered that the checksum did not match the one on the Fedora download page. Needless to say I won't be using the disk, and once I get free time I plan on trying to isolate which part of the image was tampered with. Has this happened to anyone else, and how often do you checksum your images, even ones that you have downloaded?
smart move (Score:2)
version? (Score:2)
Look at:
http://www.osdepot.com/osc/product_info.php?produ
They talk about core 4, core 3 and core 2 in the same page with little differentiation. I think they are completely confused.
Re:version? (Score:2)
Two Tears, One Bucket (Score:2)
Being of the Debian side (Score:2)
Re:Being of the Debian side (Score:2)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155737&cid=13
Re:Being of the Debian side (Score:2)
I've had verification problems with FC4 disc 1. (Score:2)
Hey Nizo:
Oddly enough, I've had the same problem with the FC4 disc images I've downloaded from fedora.redhat.com [redhat.com]. The images themselves pass the sha1sum tests, but for some reason after burning disc 1 it fails the built-in disc verification. I've burned this same CD multiple times, and the results thus far are always the same (note however that discs 2, 3, and 4 all pass the built-in verification testing).
I've installed the discs anyhow, and don't think I've run into any problems due to this (although
Checksumming (Score:2)