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If you are a KDE neon user, reinstall your distro now! | CIO

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/18

Security always has the human factor involved which means that we screw up like here:

Source: [WayBack] If you are a KDE neon user, reinstall your distro now! | CIO

A little blunder was committed by the core developers that made the entire archive insecure:

“Best practice when setting that up is to use the trusted SSH protocol to open a tunnel and upload through that,” said Riddell, “Unfortunately in setting up that new archive I had it listening for uploads on the whole network not just the local SSH tunnel.”

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] hmmm – looks legithttp://www.cio.com/article/3142789/linux/if-you-are-a-kde-neon-user-reinstall-your-distro-now.html – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

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