[aur-general] Backdoors in packages

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Wed Aug 6 08:07:27 EDT 2014


Hi,

I personally check PKGBUILDs before installing, but I know of many
people who don't.

This made me wonder: How many (if any) cases of actual malice
(backdoors, removing data, other nasty stuff) are/were actually in the
wild?

Florian

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