Mint hack
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Ben Laurie
Feb 21, 2016, 9:45:22 AM2/21/16
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Interesting to consider how BT might have helped with this:
We've discussed ISOs before, they seem like a harder problem than package installers...
Eric Myhre
Feb 24, 2016, 9:28:32 PM2/24/16
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There's a quote from Clem (the Mint maintainer) in the comments section that's very, well, quotable:
> What really helps here is duplication and the community.
> We were alerted very fast and we were able to be alerted
> because people could find contradicting MD5s (and that’s
> mostly because the MD5s aren’t just in one place, but in
> many).
(Not sure if folks saw this earlier; it appears to have been edited in and as such I'm not sure when it first appeared.)
> What really helps here is duplication and the community.
> We were alerted very fast and we were able to be alerted
> because people could find contradicting MD5s (and that’s
> mostly because the MD5s aren’t just in one place, but in
> many).
(Not sure if folks saw this earlier; it appears to have been edited in and as such I'm not sure when it first appeared.)
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