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 (Ubuntu) honks: The Treviño Story

http://soijabanaani.net/tmp/the_trevino_story:

The story so far:

Some guy decided to make a huge list of random Ubuntu repositories around the
web, and he recommends people to dump it to their sources.list without thinking:

http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/lista-repository-sourceslist-ottimizzata-per-ubuntu-kubuntu-linux/

Hundreds of people (most of them Italian) have obeyed him without realizing
that the maintainer of ANY of those repositories can do ANYTHING she wants to
their systems: destroying or stealing files, stealing passwords, criminal
activity through the computers...

Oh, and my repository is listed as well.

I made "new versions" of the packages containing the default Ubuntu and Kubuntu
wallpapers, where the image is replaced with the following friendly warning:

http://soijabanaani.net/tmp/untrusted_repositories

(...)


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