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DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.

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[โ€“] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At that point it's a single point of failure, hack that central repo and infect everything. Plus Linux is not centralized... That's kinda the point, suse, Debian, arch, red hat all have their own repos....

[โ€“] kolorafa@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, but you as a user are in control of when/how you update, you can first update some test server and only then propagate it to other.

But still better have single (hopefully secure) risk point/target that you need to pay attention than have multiple god know when/how updating that you dont even dont know about.