How safe is it to buy Linux distributions on ebay

[Guillaume ROMAGNY]

Lee Braiden a écrit :
> On Sunday 04 September 2005 22:51, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> 
>>People have talked about backdoor on Win XP. I was wondering: How safe
>>is it to buy Knoopix, Ubuntu or other distros on ebay? Could a smart
>>hacker emabde a script that could secretly export your personal info?
>>These questions came to my mind as I am finding it almost impossibe to
>>burn CDs on Ubuntu and have been thinking about buying something on
>>the ebay.
> 
> 
> YES, they could.  Even a not-so-smart teenager could.
> 
> But why buy it on ebay at all?  The best distros are Free as in Freedom *and* 
> price :)
> 
> 

Also Rajiv is using gmail... what a great backdoor in itself !

BTW, if someone at ubuntu can restart bittorrent trackers, it can help
others to download/upload

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Best regards,

Guillaume

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