Re: Testers required: PXE boot Slackware installers from slackware.org.uk

Hello,

I've been on this list for years as it's one of the very few Slackware 
lists I could find when I first looked for one, and though I'm an American, 
and this is a UK list, I've never had any issues with anyones "moral fiber" 
I guess would be the words I'm looking for.

I mean, after all, the money my Wife and I spent getting "Are you being 
Served?" On DVD, or the complete Red Dwarf, and of course, getting Doctor 
Who ? On DVD, lol, I won't even tell you how much it costs to get any 
decent Psychobilly sent here, but suffice it to say, that prejudice that 
every American is stupid, I guess that would depend on what YOU'D be 
willing to spend on music you could much more easily just download, or TV 
shows we spook LOVE, that could also much more easily download, or, as we 
both LOVE Horror movies, download Hammer Horror Films, I guess it depends  ;-)

Hundreds of dollars for something we could easily download for free, but 
free downloads, don't show the BBC that yes, some of us over here really do 
like your stuff too, and some of my online friends in England, have to 
actually send us stuff since some things aren't even available for purchase 
online no matter what you're willing to pay.

By the way, anyone here have a complete set of are you being served on DVD? 
It's almost impossible to find

-Allen

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On July 27, 2014 2:59:02 PM /dev/rob0 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 05:19:58PM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote
> regarding fear of PXE boot over the Internet:
> > Well, at least you'll separate the trusting from the paranoids ;-)
>
> Probably everyone here knows Darren as well as I do, but for the
> record I'll vouch for his character.
>
> He's twisted and sick.  He eats little babies for breakfast.
>
> But this isn't about baby sitting, this is about trusting him as a
> PXE boot source.  Of course he is a professional and is perfectly
> honourable in his intentions toward your computers.
>
> That said, while I would absolutely trust Darren for this, it does
> seem like a good opportunity for a MITM attack.  Do you trust your
> (or his) ISP/upstreams?  Do you trust your (or his) national gov't?
>
> It would be prudent to check the installer's gpg.  Is there a way to
> validate that online?  If you know you're not using a trojaned gpg,
> the signature verifications on the packages would confirm that you
> are getting clean, genuine Slackware.
>
>
> PS: No need to hurry to call the nice young men in the clean white
>     coats.  I'm only saying that MITM would be possible, not that
>     it's likely in any way.
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