[NBLUG/talk] Package Updater

[Jack Smith]

On Jan 12, 2008 3:35 PM, Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> The better application of your paranoia would be to install the
> updates.  Many of them fix security problems that could allow
> definitely bad people to take control of your computer.  Not
> installing updates because you're paranoid about somebody you've
> already trusted and instead letting malicious teenagers all over the
> world into your computer doesn't seem like a good choice to me.  :)
>

Pretty much this was what I was asking, how the computer knew where to go to
get the updates.  It seemed like a possible route to fake packages.  Thanks.
-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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