Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:46:37 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portsnap, only for ports? Message-ID: <4305B88D.3030202@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. I have some questions about portsnap. The intention of portsnap seems to be reasonable. But I miss a similar facility updating the operating system! One of the major arguments using portsnap is to avoid the intrusion of malicous code, injected via a 'man in the middle'. Thinking of so called root-kits it makes more sense to me securing the updates of source code of the operating system also or at first place. Are there any plans doing so? Or alternatives? I still use CVS updating the source code. Oliver
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