How safe is it to buy Linux distributions on ebay

P Jones deerfieldtech at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 22:12:09 UTC 2005


On 9/4/05, Rajiv Vyas <rajiv1 at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rajiv

Rajiv;

Try www.osdisc.com if you want to buy an Ubuntu CD, or most of the
other distributions. But more importantly, what problems are you
having burning CDs?

-P




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