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Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads

From	Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads
Date	2016-02-22 08:59 -0800
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FredW wrote:
> How many people know what a torrent is ???

Lots and lots of people dl linux .iso/s.  Lots and lots of people have 
spent lots and lots of TIME dl/ing linux iso/s.  During the time spent 
dl/ing those lots and lots of .iso/s, the issue of mirrors and torrents 
as a solution to the problem is readily apparent, depending on the distro.

Some distros don't have so many different ways to dl as Mint does.

> How many people know what a mirror is ???

Lots and lots of mint dl/ers.  Some may use mirrors and not be familiar 
with the term.

> How many people know what a slow (let alone slowest) mirror is ???

Lots and lots of people with the experience of dl/ing 'a number' of 
linux particularly Mint .iso/s.

> I download fromhttp://www.linuxmint.com/   (now no connection)

Mint's site has made the use of mirrors and torrents readily available.

> I downloaded from nluug (NL)
> https://www.nluug.nl/
> http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/

That is a 'good' mirror.

> Last time I downloaded 17.3 from University Aachen (D)
> http://mirror.bauhuette.fh-aachen.de/linuxmint-cd//stable/17.3/

That is also a good mirror.

> I suppose I do not use a torrent (which torrent ?),
> but as these download sites are all I know,
> why would I look for something I never heard off ???

Your experience supports my argument in a way.  You know mirrors (just 
not the word apparently); you just don't do torrents.  You don't have to 
'buy' the torrent part of my argument to buy the mirror part.

-- 
Mike Easter

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Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2016-02-22 03:44 -0600
  Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads TimW <tim@mysurname.me.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:03 +0000
    Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-02-22 08:01 -0800
      Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads FredW <fredw@ninmule.invalid> - 2016-02-22 17:31 +0100
        Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-02-22 08:59 -0800
          Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-02-22 09:50 -0800
            Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-02-22 10:12 -0800
          Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads FredW <fredw@ninmule.invalid> - 2016-02-22 19:29 +0100
            Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-02-22 10:43 -0800
              Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads FredW <fredw@ninmule.invalid> - 2016-02-22 20:08 +0100
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              Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-02-23 19:34 +0000
                Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-02-23 20:59 -0800
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            Re: Hacker explains how he put "backdoor" in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2016-02-22 13:55 -0600
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