[ILUG] PS's + Virii

[kevin lyda]

Bernard Tyers burst across the net:
>that was onereally big point that i always wondered about open-source.
>what was there to assure unsuspecting people that noone had rewitten an
>application with trojan code in it?
>i suppose with the advent of PGP and digital certificates it is easier to
>make sure that the software if coming from the people it says.
>
>is there any procedure to go thru'?

check the rpm man page for info on the verify mode.  i'm sure dpkg
has a similar feature.  md5 and pgp if you have it installed.
there are also packages like tripwire.

kevin