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Comment by GrayShade

6 hours ago

Who protects you when the packagers decide to trust a shady CA (adding it to the root store) because it's used by the distro's infra?

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account42  5 hours ago

Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha argument? Against what?

  • GrayShade  5 hours ago

    Not exactly the same thing, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#Additional_security....

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