[ubuntu-za] Edgy CDs for the community

Gustav H Meyer ghmeyer at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 09:44:28 GMT 2007


On 3/9/07, Dave Matthews <dave at qualica.com> wrote:
> Gustav H Meyer wrote:
> > My concern would be around the securities of the manufacturing
> > process. How can Canonical guarantee that there are no trojan horses
> > etc. that somebody could easily slip into the iso before burning to
> > cd.
> Not very easy, assuming the user want's to take the step of using
> Canonical's md5 checksums.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
>
> You could print the url on the cd.
> See this page for help in doing md5's on windows etc:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Interesting links. Thanks. The only problem is, how do I check the MD5
hash of the CD after it was burnt.



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